By Violet Li
The surroundings of the Stevensons Brothers Industries (SBI) landfill could see more houses in the future as a proposed planning application has sought to subdivide the Brookland Greens Recreation Reserve to facilitate the future expansion of the housing estate.
Land surveyor Head & Humphreys Pty Ltd proposed subdividing the Brookland Greens Recreation Reserve into two lots to represent the existing zone boundaries.
The reserve, located at the corner of Ballarto Rd and Cranbourne-Frankston Rd, has two zonings, including the 4.43 hectares of land at the western end, zoned as General Residential, and the rest zoned as Public Park & Recreation.
According to the proposal, the subdivision is “intended to facilitate the future sale of this land for the continued expansion of the Brookland Greens Estate”.
The proposal notes that an application for the future development of the land remains subject to separate approval by others, which requires a more comprehensive assessment of the site constraints and a demonstration of how the subdivision responds to the overlay and the scattered remnant vegetation on the site.
“Particular consideration will also be required to determine vehicle access locations off Ballarto Rd and where appropriate, Cranbourne-Frankston Rd via service lanes, along with the interface treatment to the SES building adjacent to the site’s northwest corner,” it states.
The proposed residential lot at the western end is about 700 to 800 metres away from the neighbouring SBI landfill.
A nearby resident said they don’t want more houses in the area.
“If we have houses there, it’s going to make more traffic in the streets and everything,” she said.
“The council told us that all this land was going to be for recreational.”
The resident said she didn’t smell the odour from the neighbouring landfill, but a lot of her neighbours along the other streets in the Brookland Greens Estate could smell the rotten egg-like odour when the wind was blowing.
Another nearby resident said when they bought the house, they expected that there would be more houses down the road, so they wouldn’t be bothered.
The two-lot subdivision application PA24-0529 is advertised on Casey’s planning portal until 11 March.
Residents can lodge a submission to this application. Submissions can only be lodged after the application has been advertised and prior to determination.
