BRIMBANK council has withdrawn its bid for major federal funding for a new learning centre in Sunshine.
The council nominated Western Regional Business and Community Learning Exchange for round five of the Regional Development Australia Fund. But last week it selected the Taylors Creek shared trail at Green Gully Reserve for $1.1 million from the RDAF, after it decided the amount available for the proposed learning centre was not enough to deliver all elements .
“There is another fund which is more suitable for the exchange,” infrastructure and environment director Paul Younis said.
The council will still apply for RDA funding to extend the Kororoit Creek pathway to the Federation Trail, to be completed next year.
Construction on the Taylors Creek trail is expected to begin late next year.
Meanwhile, the council will spend $650,000 to address air pollution concerns by developing two Brooklyn streets, including $500,000 on drainage works in Jones Road.
As reported by the Weekly, the state government has chipped in $900,000 to seal Jones and Bunting roads following high levels of dust because of poor surfaces and industrial work in the area.
Administrator Jane Nathan said she hoped the funding would address extreme levels of dust in Melbourne’s most polluted suburb.
“There are dust levels way beyond what should be experienced in any municipality,” she said.
