A new GP super clinic is planned for parklands next to Banksia Gardens Community Centre at Broadmeadows.
Hume council has resolved to surrender its long-term lease of the parklands, owned by the Department of Human Services and used as a community gardens and activities area abutting the centre, to allow the clinic development to go ahead.
A report to the council anticipates the department would then sell an area of Banksia Gardens fronting Coleraine Street to Dianella Community Health so it is able to build and operate the clinic.
Another part of the gardens, which the council has maintained and developed for more than 20 years, is a protected conservation site in Hume’s natural heritage strategy, containing native grasslands deemed significant.
The council has notified the Department of Human Services of the site’s protected status.
Redeeming its once peppercorn rental will save the council more than $27,000 a year.
