The State Emergency Service will build a new unit in Caroline Springs to cater to booming population growth.
The new Caroline Springs/Plumpton SES unit is one of six new units to be built across Victoria with $14.9 million from the 2017-18 State Budget.
The base will be built on council land with the state government to subsidise its long-term lease.
Education
The new Taylors Hill West Secondary College is one of three Brimbank schools to receive a budget windfall for new buildings and upgrades.
The state government has committed $23 million to purchase land and build the second stage of the Plumpton high school to ensure it’s open to students before 2020.
The Andrews government will also give Keilor Heights Primary School $522,000 for “modernisation” works, while Victoria University Secondary College is one of six schools to share in $7 million to plan for new school buildings.
College principal Genevieve Simson said the exact amount of money the school would receive was unknown, but she was nonetheless “thrilled” it could begin planning for new facilities.
“This is out of the blue, it’s really nice, we’ve been hoping for a long time,” she said.
“The school has been planning to build new buildings for a long time, it was an election promise made years ago, in about 2011.
“We need a whole new school, it all needs replacing. These buildings are old,” Ms Simson said.
The school’s St Albans and Deer Park campuses were built in 1962 and 1973 respectively. It has plans to build new facilities for Years 7-9 at its Deer Park campus and a new senior campus on a large parcel of vacant land on Furlong Road in Cairnlea.
Master plans have been drawn-up for both projects.
Roads
Another $700 million has been committed to the $2.25 billion upgrade of the M80 Ring Road.
The Western Ring Road ring road, between Laverton and Greensborough, will be widened from end to end by 2021, at a cost of $673 million – the federal government will cover half the cost.
