By XAVIER SMERDON
ANOTHER 2000 homes could be built in Point Cook despite Wyndham Council sending a strong message to the State Government disapproving of a proposed housing development.
The State Government and the Growth Areas Authority (GAA) recently announced a plan to create a new residential community, Point Cook West, that would bring about 2000 new homes and 6000 new residents to Wyndham.
The land that is being eyed off for the development is directly west of Hacketts Rd in Point Cook, between the Princes Freeway and Sneydes Rd.
The land is owned by the State Government but the council last week revealed their intentions to receive a report on the history of the land to see what powers they would have to make the State Government invest in specific infrastructure before any development would be allowed to begin.
Deputy Mayor Glenn Goodfellow said Point Cook’s roads were already struggling without the addition of another 2000 homes.
“I don’t have to tell you the major problems we have in Point Cook with road access in and out of the suburb as well as a lack of bus services to service the current residents,” Cr Goodfellow said.
“There is no point in putting in just another new development if the infrastructure isn’t there to support it or the surrounding areas.”
The GAA’s Point Cook West Precinct Structure Plan states that a new diamond interchange between Sneydes Rd and the Princes Freeway would be built, along with an extension of Dunnings Rd over the Princes Freeway, to help deal with the extra traffic the development would create.
But Cr Goodfellow said that given these new roads had been set a time frame of zero to 15 years to be built, it was not good enough.
“There is no funding to construct a diamond interchange from Sneydes Rd onto the bypass at any time within the next short to medium term time frame,” he said.
“So in other words, within the next 15 years. So here we have a road in a plan and guess what, it’s a road to nowhere.”
