The Gillon conglomerate has now released its next phase of ‘consultation’ for Virginia Estate. Residents should note:
- The site keeps expanding. It now includes the area between Griffiths Avenue and North Road. We estimate that the site is approximately 25 hectares.
- Detail is non-existent and several of the maps in relation to NEW OPEN SPACE are contradictory.
- Terminology is obtuse (ie Mixed Use Development we argue should be read as a euphemism for residential development).
- Solution to traffic is the installation of two sets of traffic lights within 100 metres of each other along East Boundary Road.
Readers should consider the following carefully in terms of:
- If all the buildings marked as ‘redundant’ are to go, will they be replaced with apartments?
- Are we really looking at an ‘employment hub’ that covers 90% of the site, or is this simply doublespeak for 2 shops and hundreds of apartments above? Remember that the centre of the site has already been rezoned and ‘permission’ granted for 10 storey developments.
Conclusion?
Until the Gillon group is prepared to be upfront with residents and to provide full detail then little credence can be given to these ‘concepts’.
Glen Eira Debates 
June 14, 2016 at 10:53 AM
what’s high value employment? Check out chicks?
June 14, 2016 at 12:05 PM
This is not consultation. It is pissing in the wind. Until they provide plenty of detail so people know 100 per cent what they are aiming for then it is all spiel. The land has grown so we can be sure that we are looking at more than their original claim of only 1100 apartments. More likely between 3 and 5 thousand.
June 14, 2016 at 1:19 PM
The suggested “new open space” reminds me of the boulevard for the Caulfield Village. A patch of green surrounded by high rise. If the area is 25 hectares and if council sticks to its guns and demands land instead of money then there should be at least 1 to 1.5 hectares of land handed over for public open space. If there are to be around 4000 dwellings then there has to be this size open space.
June 14, 2016 at 2:13 PM
yes if you go across the road to Duncan Mckinnon Reserve there is not a blade of grass free at any time. The pocket park next to the development is useless. Maybe adding to it could make at least a couple of multi purpose sports courts
June 14, 2016 at 7:30 PM
The money is in real estate development and not small shops and businesses. I cannot believe that they will settle for only a thousand residences when they can get a lot more onto this land.
June 15, 2016 at 5:48 PM
What a farce. Get a company to draw some pretty pictures and use language that igoves residents no idea what is really going to happen! Bigger and bigger! More and more. Does not surprise me. Nothing changes in their attitude to local residents concerns eg traffic conjestion.
June 15, 2016 at 10:47 PM
It certainly will not be Virginia Estate any more after this mob has screwed it over.
June 16, 2016 at 7:16 PM
They may call it Horeton Estate