| Written by Marc Pallisco |
| Monday, 14 March 2011 00:00 |
 THE Police Association has snaffled a reported $2 million from the sale of a 46.5 hectare block of land abutting the outer north-eastern township of Coldstream.The site (pictured, right), which was marketed throughout the summer by agency RT Edgar as “The Police Block”, is currently used for grazing – but is said to have attracted interest from developers, and land bankers, being on the edge of the Urban Growth Boundary. Melbourne’s UGB - a controversial invisible line dividing where builders can and can’t develop – was revised several times by the previous state government, much to the delight of developers who bought land cheap, outside the zone gambling when the government would run out of room to zone as housing, and need them. This Coldstream property, with a street address of 84 Killara Road, is arguably another of those sites. Coldstream is about 38 kilometres from the CBD, near a disused train station and a small shopping centre, The Lodge. More sophisticated amenity including schools and offices are at neighbouring Lilydale. In recent years some groups have been advocating to extend Coldstream’s boundary for the benefit of its small businesses, and so as to have enough people to support a large school. They argue that by comparison, suburbs further from the city than Coldstream, like Pakenham, in the south-east, and Melton in the west, are seeing an abundance of new development, which is improving the quality of services following people to those areas. Andrew Houghton represented The Police Association but declined to comment on any part of the campaign. |
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