Tara Murray
Plans for an residential-aged facility on the site of the old Calder Rise Primary School have been approved.
The facility will be located at the north-eastern corner of Green Gully Road and Solomon Drive, Keilor.
Brimbank council approved the updated plans at its recent council meeting. The approval comes after the council refused an earlier planning application for the development.
A merits hearing was set down at the Victorian Civil Administrative Tribunal in early November to discuss the plans, but will no longer go ahead.
The site will include a number of different varies of units from single-storey independent living units around the northern and eastern sides, to low care apartments within a three-storey building.
There will be 57 units built with a maximum of 100 residents allowed.
A planning forum had been held with a number of residents expressing their concerns about the development.
The concerns raised by the submitters related to increased traffic, car parking, landscaping, out of character, overdevelopment, loss of amenity during construction, lack of appeal rights and concerns about a nearby intersection.
Cr Bruce Lancashire said it was a complicated site with a long history. He said the site had been downsized from earlier plans and that he believed that the airport had withdrawn its objection to the project.
Cr Victoria Borg said that Brimbank was seeing an increasingly aging population and that the facility was much needed in the area.
Other councillors also shared those views that there needs to be more residential-aged cared facilities in the area.
