BRIMBANK Council is one step closer to winning the battle against the rubbish epidemic in Baldwin Ave, North Sunshine.
The council is confident it will soon see its vision of the North Sunshine Industrial Area becoming a place of improved amenity levels and ambience and quality investment opportunities after the successful clean up.
Council officers first realised three blocks on Baldwin Ave were being used as dumping grounds in 2007 by the property’s tenants.
The tenants ran a recycling business, hiring recycling bins to the community, but once the bins were returned the contents were dumped on the empty property.
Prosecution officers were hindered in their proceedings for a number of years as the tenants first moved overseas and then sold the property to a third party, however the land has now been fully cleared.
Brimbank chief administrator Peter Lewinsky said he was pleased to see the land void of garbage.
“This outcome justifies the council’s commitment to improving the overall image of the area and to remove these types of illegal activities from within the North Sunshine is a credit to and also highlights the ongoing efforts from the Brimbank’s compliance team to address non-compliant operators despite difficult circumstances,” Mr Lewinsky said.
“After more than three years the land has been cleared of all illegally imported material and will now be fenced. The cost of removal of the material from the site was previously estimated to be approximately $90,000.”
The council has spent more than $18.1 million to redevelop the area, including the construction of essential services and infrastructure such as roads, footpaths, street scaping, stormwater drains, sewer mains and water mains.
