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Fed-up residents have urged Greater Dandenong Council to get on with the long-awaited Dandenong Community Hub.
Concept plans for the proposed centre – potentially with early childhood services, informal meeting rooms and activity spaces – appear to have stalled.
The council has no timeline for completion.
In a 406-signature petition, residents have called on the council to complete the concept plans – as it had promised by the end of June 2021.
The petition also calls for community consultation on its location, including the option of the Dandenong Market precinct in Clow Street.
Petitioner Silvia Mastrogiavanni said Dandenong residents have endured “excuses” for at least a decade as they waited for “a place with a community heart”.
Greater Dandenong Council has withdrawn its legal fight against a controversial waste-to-energy plant in Dandenong South.
Despite its previously declared ‘strong opposition’, the council settled with the Environment Protection Authority and the plant’s proponent Great Southern Waste Technologies ahead of an appeal hearing at VCAT on 1 February.
The plant is expected to burn 100,000 tonnes a year of municipal household solid waste, commercial and industrial waste to produce 7.9 MW of electricity to the grid.
Councillors endorsed the council’s withdrawal in a recent closed briefing from council officers.
They were advised the council was unlikely to win its appeal against the EPA’s works approval for the project, and faced a potential legal bill of up to $700,000 including GSWT’s costs.