Hume mayor Casey Nunn has been vindicated in her belief in a caravan-led recovery, at least for one group of road-users.
Earlier this year, Cr Nunn proposed Hume council investigate becoming an official caravan-friendly tourist town, but the bureaucracy found this was not a simple task as it would require significant and expensive infrastructure and space .
But Cr Nunn pursued the idea and last week joined state Manufacturing Minister David Hodgett at the opening of a new $3.5 million manufacturing space for Nova Caravans at the company’s Campbellfield base.
The new 3000-square-metre facility is expected to increase production capacity of Nova caravans by up to 40 per cent.
The company, established in 2005, is one of the top 10 Victorian caravan manufacturers and employs 66 people.
“The sector has grown steadily at around 3 per cent annually over the past five years and there were 11,300 new caravan and campervan registrations in Australia in the three years to 2012,” Mr Hodgett said.
