Griffith City Council's newly adopted Master Plan for the Lake Wyangan Urban Release Area is expected to provide additional housing stock to support growth in Griffith over the next 25 years.
Council adopted the Master Plan at its meeting on 9 February 2021. The design is the result of extensive community consultation.
The Master Plan was developed with number of principles in mind including providing diverse lot and housing options in line with the recommendations of the Griffith Housing Strategy 2019, delivering growth area land to progressively be developed to meet the demand for urban residential lots in Griffith over a 15-20 year time period, utilising the capacity of existing water and sewer infrastructure and support the Lake Wyangan School.
Griffith Mayor, Councillor John Dal Broi welcomed the adoption of the Plan.
"The Master Plan caters for around 1200 dwellings and hopes to satisfy some of the demand for greenfield residential lots in Griffith," Cr Dal Broi said.
"It also provides general parameters for development including: staging, minimum lot sizes, servicing and drainage requirements, road networks and land uses.
"This is exciting for our community because it opens up a new growth area, which is something we are in need of. It's going to offer further housing options in the future."
The Master Plan and supporting documentation was placed on public exhibition from 20 November 2020 to 18 December 2020. A community consultation presentation was facilitated by Council staff via Zoom and a video of the presentation was posted to Council's Facebook page, with no issues raised during the presentation.
Five written submissions were received, with each reviewed in detail and no amendments to the publically exhibited Master Plan deemed necessary based on a review of those submissions.
The next stage is to prepare detailed engineering plans for roads and drainage infrastructure to inform the preparation of a Contribution Plan which would ensure the equitable development of the Master Plan through costing mains infrastructure.
A contribution levy per lot would be developed during the contribution planning stage. Further consultation with landowners, Council and the public would also occur during this stage.
