Hume council has moved to clarify its intentions in proposing to rezone a block of land reserved for public purposes to farming land.
The proposed amendment, C181, is on exhibition at the council’s Sunbury and Broadmeadows offices until December 13, and anyone affected by it can make a submission.
According to former Bulla shire engineer John McKerrow, the land in Eadie Street, fronting Jacksons Creek, was set aside for a public park after being deeded to the council by the Victorian Housing Commission when it developed Goonawarra.
Mr McKerrow said the land grant was undertaken “to join into existing Sunbury via a direct pedestrian connection”.
Hume’s city sustainability director, Kevin Walsh, said the council was proposing to rezone 6437 square metres of the land (1.6 acres) to farming and to sell this to the adjacent Goona Warra Vineyard for agricultural use. Mr Walsh said this would not compromise access to, and along, the river.
