A major tourism project, with room for at least 800 people, planned for Nagambie has been rejected by VCAT after meeting stiff resistance from local objectors.
Parklea Developments has lost a bid to build a large caravan park and tourism resort near Nagambie.
Parklea Developments sought to subdivide more than 40 hectares at the site known as Kirwans Bridge, as part of its application to build a tourism park with room for at least 800 people.But last week the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejected the application, in a decision hailed by opponents who had mounted a vigorous fundraising campaign to defeat the project.
Tribunal members found the project was too large and there had been insufficient consideration of “cumulative environmental impacts”. Kirwans Bridge Community Group chairman David Maddocks said the natural environment and native fauna needed protection from property developments.Maddocks said his group had raised $77,000 from private donors and $13,000 in an online campaign to fight the project and pay for expert witnesses and lawyers to represent them at the tribunal.He said they would continue fighting any similar development proposed for the land.
Parklea was founded by Andrew Facey, who has built extensive property developments in Pakenham and West Gippsland.Parklea’s website said Facey expanded his agricultural interests to the Strathbogie Shire six years ago, buying a farm at Nagambie, including a historic homestead on the Goulburn River.
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