Comment: The Coldstream 2020 group is NOT asking for more houses in the estate BUT around the estate. This can only be achieved by expansion of the UGB (Urban Growth Boundary) .
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YARRA Ranges Council will conduct a third survey with Coldstream residents to determine whether they favour expanding the town.
The council survey is in response to a grassroots campaign to almost double the town’s size, and follows similar surveys by the Coldstream 2020 group and Evelyn state Liberal MP Christine Fyffe.
Coldstream 2020 met with council officers and Ryrie Ward councillor Jeanette McRae last week, as part of its campaign to reinvigorate the town by increasing the amount of available land for housing.
Group spokesman Peter Wal said they were now prepared to give the council time to conduct its own survey and undertake new research.
The research will focus on the effect of changing townships on the greater Yarra Ranges area.
“Our town is shrinking and dying at the moment,” said Mr Wal, a real estate agent who has spent his life in Coldstream.
“Businesses have moved out of the area, the school has gone from 300 students to about 100.
“A lot of young people are leaving because there is nowhere to live in Coldstream.
“We used to be a thriving little town with events like fetes. Now we don’t have any of that because there are no kids here.”
Coldstream 2020 comprises local residents and business owners who want to expand the town by rezoning large tracts of underused rural land.
In its survey last year 108 people responded, with 73 per cent in support of its proposed expansion.
Almost 3 per cent of responses were incorrectly completed, while 13 were against expansion and 11 supported expansion.
The council survey is in response to a grassroots campaign to almost double the town’s size, and follows similar surveys by the Coldstream 2020 group and Evelyn state Liberal MP Christine Fyffe.
Coldstream 2020 met with council officers and Ryrie Ward councillor Jeanette McRae last week, as part of its campaign to reinvigorate the town by increasing the amount of available land for housing.
Group spokesman Peter Wal said they were now prepared to give the council time to conduct its own survey and undertake new research.
The research will focus on the effect of changing townships on the greater Yarra Ranges area.
“Our town is shrinking and dying at the moment,” said Mr Wal, a real estate agent who has spent his life in Coldstream.
“Businesses have moved out of the area, the school has gone from 300 students to about 100.
“A lot of young people are leaving because there is nowhere to live in Coldstream.
“We used to be a thriving little town with events like fetes. Now we don’t have any of that because there are no kids here.”
Coldstream 2020 comprises local residents and business owners who want to expand the town by rezoning large tracts of underused rural land.
In its survey last year 108 people responded, with 73 per cent in support of its proposed expansion.
Almost 3 per cent of responses were incorrectly completed, while 13 were against expansion and 11 supported expansion.
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