Save this: David Bell at Spring Creek.
RESIDENTS have responded angrily on an online forum to Surf Coast Shire’s new proposals for residential growth of Torquay and Jan Juc.
Stage two of the Surf Coast’s 2040 consultation process has attracted a barrage of objections to council’s three “scenarios” for development.
The scenarios propose either doubling or tripling the populations and include development of farming land in Spring Creek.
A post under the name John Snowdon said the shire’s consultation process was a “sham”.
“We are destroying a beautiful part of the world through ‘sustainable development’.”
Another post, Docrev, raised concerns of a whitewash.
“It is clear that the community does not want development in Spring Creek. Why do a handful of developers have more power than several thousand residents?”
Speak Up For Spring Creek’s David Bell told the Independent residential growth should occur in Geelong, not on the Surf Coast.
“We must develop ways of keeping the community strong and prevent the area being over developed. We don’t want the area turned into a concrete wasteland,” he said.
