State Govt Panel committee back Sandown

https://dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2025-01-03/committee-backs-sandown-suburb/

According to the panel members that seem to sit on all these hearing thus giving the same verdicts

“The Committee was not presented with compelling submissions or evidence that challenged this.”

" It said more effort should be made to preserve the open woodland near Corrigan Road – though noting that the road needed to be widened to cater for increasing traffic.

It found Sandown Road and Virginia Road could take higher traffic volumes, but the Princes Highway “gateway” overpass’s viability was an “unanswered question”.( What a joke!)

The site was well serviced by trains and buses, with scope for an internal bus network.( What a  joke!)

Flooding risks at Mile Creek, including upstream and downstream of Sandown, was also an unresolved question for the SRAC.

Greater Dandenong Council and Melbourne Water had raised concerns about plans to redesign Sandown’s lake into a waterway and to remove the southern dam.

“The Committee does not support any increase in flooding of any areas off-site arising from the development.

“Any adverse impact on any area, especially on Warner Reserve and surrounding properties, must be avoided.

“This applies now and in the climate change scenario.”

The proposed planning scheme amendment C229gdan is now in the hands of the Planning Minister.( who has never visited City of Greater Dandenong!