By BRIDGET COOK
JUST two months after Casey council wound up its Casey Fields name change saga, a group of Cranbourne North residents have started another one.
At Tuesday night’s council meeting, councillor Wayne Smith tabled a petition signed by about 190 people from The Avenue and Eve estates calling for the suburb boundary to be changed.
Both estates are currently classed as Cranbourne North, and some residents feel they should be included in the Berwick or Narre Warren South suburbs.
Cr Smith said given the council had just gone through the process of a controversial possible name change for Cranbourne East and Clyde North, he doubted the council would support the petition
“I don’t know if we want to go down that path again,” he said.
“But it is a petition so I’ll table it for consideration.”
Head petitioner Venkata Naga Sridevi said residents in The Avenue felt they were removed from Cranbourne itself and were actually much closer to Narre Warren South, Casey Central and Berwick.
She said the issue came to light when residents were petitioning for a bus service for the estate and said many others also wanted the name change.
“The Berwick and Narre Warren borders run along Glasscocks Road and Grices Road,” she said.
“We are just on the other side of the road and feel we are closer to them than Cranbourne.
“There is just one road separating us, so why can’t we be on the Berwick and Narre Warren side?”
The City if Casey will now investigate the request, with a report to come back to the council at a later date.
In February the council ended a three-year saga of changing a suburb boundary and renaming Cranbourne East and Clyde North as Casey Fields.
After stern opposition from the community, the council resolved that the suburb names and boundaries of Cranbourne East, Clyde and Clyde North should remain unchanged.
The decision came after more than three years of consultation between the council and affected landowners, including two surveys being sent out to poll residents on their preferred new suburb name.
