All parties have grown frustrated by the delays, with the application sitting on the planning minister\u2019s desk for two years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA proposal to develop 400 homes on a former golf course in Melbourne\u2019s north-east has been sitting on the planning minister\u2019s desk for two years, leading to growing frustration.<\/p>\n
The former Yarra Valley Country Club, next to the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Bulleen, is waiting on a decision from the minister on a proposed development of 350 to 400 apartments and townhouses on a 25-hectare site.<\/p>\n
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Ross Blair-Holt, director of Yarra Valley Country Club Property, wants the green light to build townhouses and apartments. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>Eddie Jim <\/cite><\/p>\nThe development would also include giving up 16 hectares along the Yarra for public parkland and bike paths. However, the local council opposes the development and Heide is pushing for the land to be used to expand the gallery.<\/p>\n
The site at 9-15 Templestowe Road is owned by pokies billionaire Bruce Mathieson and the planned development was first called in by former planning minister Richard Wynne in 2019.<\/p>\n
A 21-day advisory committee hearing was held in 2021 and the committee delivered its report to the minister in December 2021.<\/p>\n
Despite multiple letters and approaches to current Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny, the application by developer Yarra Valley Country Club Property has not progressed for two years.<\/p>\n
Ross Blair Holt, director of Yarra Valley Country Club Property, said the delay was frustrating when there was a housing shortage in Victoria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are sitting on something pretty powerful \u2013 it can provide housing and it is just like a slow-motion wreck,\u201d he said. \u201cThey say they need more housing, and housing in the suburbs rather than out in the Meltons of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blair Holt said there was a lot of money tied up in the proposed development and nothing happening.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is costing us a shitload holding 25 hectares of land,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have all the interest rates, all those sorts of things, plus stopping vandalism of the old social club.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The former golf course was shut down last year and has fallen into disrepair. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>Eddie Jim<\/cite><\/p>\nThe developer shut the golf course and attached country club and social club last year after 50 years in operation, and the land has been sitting unused since.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Manningham Council valued the site at $10.85 million; if rezoned for housing, Blair Holt said the site would be worth \u201ctens of millions\u201d and the land to be gifted for public use alone had a value of more than $34 million.<\/p>\n
Andrew McMaster, acting director of planning at Manningham, said the council supported the development of the southern part of the land and acknowledged the benefit of giving the northern part of the site along the river bank to the public.<\/p>\n
But he had rejected the current application because the Manningham planning scheme restricts development in the \u201csensitive and highly valued\u201d river valley landscape.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current redevelopment lacks strategic justification to support such an expansion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
McMaster also said the council was concerned whether the development in its proposed form could be achieved given hydrological, environmental, ecological, visual and cultural considerations.<\/p>\n
City of Manningham councillor Stephen Mayne, who moved a motion opposing the development in 2021, said the council wanted the minister to reject the rezoning application and did not understand what was behind the delay.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe opposed it two years ago and it has been gathering dust on the minister\u2019s desk since then,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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An early image of the proposed development. Heide is at the bottom of the image.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Grimshaw Architects<\/cite><\/p>\nMayne said Manningham rejected the development application as the site was in a flood zone and because earlier plans to include 5 per cent affordable housing on the site were dropped by the developer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe obvious use for the site is an expansion of the Heide art gallery next door,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Heide has proposed an additional $70 million gallery to house more of its permanent collection and better accommodate exhibitions.<\/p>\n
Gallery director Tim Sligo said he was also frustrated by the delay and wanted a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to see it resolved so we can determine the future of Heide\u2019s masterplan and business case,\u201d he said. \u201cThat envisages a new gallery and it is the positioning of that new gallery which the outcome of the cultural precinct plan will help determine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kilkenny did not respond to a request for comment by deadline.<\/p>\n
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