38 Myers Street, Bendigo 3550, VIC

Objection: 38 Myers St Bendigo was built as a residential dwelling and to cater for the ever increasing need for more housing and needs to remain for the purpose for which it was built. The alternative will create a sprawling city with the need to build more and more houses on the edge of the city where utilities, public transport and other services are not available to neighborhoods. It will cost much to provide these services. There are many vacant commercial properties in the CBD that are left with little maintenance giving the city a degraded appearance. These vacant properties were built with the purpose of accommodating business such as a medical center.
Council has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars compiling reports such as the City Centre Plan which has been adopted by Council for the purpose of making the CBD a vibrant business area with car parking projects, public transport and most importantly facilities for pedestrians who walk the streets as potential shoppers. The Bridge St Precinct was adopted specifically as a medical precinct but little development has occurred. Allowing businesses to establish in residential properties just raises the cost of housing, an issue facing many people today, particularly, young people but increasingly older people.
For this application to be debated at council it will be likely necessary for councillors to put in objections as council has a policy of 6 objectors are needed for applications to come to a council meeting. This application and many others will destroy the life of the CBD and further increase the demand for housing. Council can stop this from happening by changing the Great Bendigo Planning Scheme.