By LAURA WAKELY
KEILOR residents and traders have won their fight to stop a multi-storey development being built in Kennedy St.
Brimbank City Council Administrators voted to refuse an application to rezone land at 14-16 Kennedy St for a three storey building and basement with shops, six offices and six units, at a planning meeting last week.
Speaking for the Keilor Residents and Ratepayers Association and Keilor Historical Society, Susan Jennison told Administrators the plan would have “destroyed” the Keilor Village.
Ms Jennison said the community had spent years working on a vision for Keilor and that the plans would have not been in line with that vision.
Administrator Meredith Sussex agreed and elected to refuse the application on the grounds that the Keilor vision document made clear that the area should only be rezoned once existing sites had been developed.
Traders formed the Keilor Village Traders Association (KVTA) to fight against the development and Fergusson Plarre’s Joe Marino said it was a “great feeling” that the community campaign had paid off.
“No doubt there’ll be some form of development there but it won’t be to the grand scale they originally suggested,” Mr Marino said.
“We’re very, very happy.”
