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By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Negotiations to save one of Keysborough’s oldest standing buildings have taken a promising turn, Greater Dandenong councillors say.
Residents and councillors have lobbied to save the markedly-deteriorating 144-year-old Keysborough Methodist Church at 176 Chapel Road.
In the meantime, Greater Dandenong Council and the church’s owner the Uniting Church have been in months of talks about a possible handover for a ‘peppercorn fee’.
Land at the rear of the church may be set aside for “quality” large-lot housing.
Similarly, the council secured the historic Masonic lodge in Mason Street, Dandenong for $1. The Greater Dandenong Gallery of Art is soon to open on the renovated site.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
A Greater Dandenong Council internal review has given the all-clear to a controversial 116-townhouse estate being built just a metre from a busy road corner in Keysborough.
Public uproar had erupted over the Keysborough Townhouses project in a mixed-use zone at 452 Cheltenham Road.
There appears no room for a footpath along the access road to the HomeCo shopping centre, child-care centre and Cheltenham Road.
The estate’s corner property Lot 1 stands just a metre from the kerb.
Residents also fear that a shortage of onsite parking will cause overflow into the HomeCo.
However a review by Greater Dandenong’s building and planning teams found the project was compliant.