By Alesha Capone
A proposal to open a new wine bar and a pizza restaurant capable of holding up to 400 people in Werribee has been submitted to Wyndham council.
The application is seeking to open both licensed premises at shopfronts located on the ground floor of a larger commercial and residential site at 116 Watton Street, and to use some adjoining open space.
The planning documents state that the “small wine bar with packaged liquor sales” will be named Corked Wine Bar, and be capable of hosting a maximum of 135 patrons at once.
The wine bar will not have a kitchen but food could be provided for patrons on “an informal basis”.
At the restaurant, to be known as Teddy Picker, the sale and consumption of liquor will occur from 11am-11pm from Monday to Friday and 10am-11pm from Saturday to Sunday.
At the wine bar, the sale and consumption of liquor will occur 1pm-11pm from Monday to Friday and 11am -11pm on weekends.
There will be a minimum of one staff member in each licensed premises when liquor is served.
The only music to be played at either venue will be “lightly amplified-background music”, according to the planning documents submitted to the council.
The documents say that the proposal will introduce two new licensed premises use into the area “but it will be only an increase in what will be good types of licensed premises … from a public amenity perspective”.
The application also says that 116 Watton Street has excellent access to and from car parking, trains, buses, bike parking, public toilets, rubbish bins and police.
