The Werribee South youth detention centre will be only 250 metres from planned new homes and similarly close to an apartment complex slated for the East Werribee Employment Precinct, according to a structure plan.
The East Werribee Precinct Structure Plan reveals that 2200 new homes are on the cards for Point Cook South West, while another 1500 properties will make up the Wattle Village Community, which will include apartment blocks. The structure plan is publicly available on the Victorian Planning Authority’s website.
Despite this, Youth Affairs Minister Jenny Mikakos has gone on the record as saying the planned youth prison will be 700 metres from residential homes.
Ms Mikakos did not answer Star Weekly’s questions on the subject.
Wyndham council chief executive Kelly Grigsby said the precinct plans showed a youth prison would be within 250 metres of new homes slated for Point Cook South West and close to the future Wattle Village apartment complexes.
“They might be talking about existing dwellings, but the reality is this will be quite next to new estates earmarked in the structure plan,” Ms Grigsby said.
“It’s also in the vicinity of where the Wattle Village executive apartment complexes are planned so that will adversely impact, no doubt, the amenity of those and the ability to attract the sort of development we’re expecting in that … precinct.”
