FOR residents on Wyndham’s fringe, feeling the financial pinch isn’t the only problem they have with copping a rates hike.
On Monday, council chambers erupted with cries that council was neglecting outer suburbs’ needs.
Mount Cottrell’s Alicia Borg said her house was “disconnected” from the amenities of suburban Wyndham. Her house, on the corner of two roads without street lighting or drainage, has no water, gas or sewerage amenities.
“Our rates are in excess of $4000 … we pay a significant amount more, yet we do not have even basic amenities. I definitely cannot see how the rates of Mount Cottrell residents are reaching the whole city of Wyndham.”
Wyndham Vale landowner Neil Anderson, who lives on a 22-hectare Hobbs Road property, said roads were ungraded and riddled with potholes.”They [council] don’t maintain the roads out here and we’ve got no street lights and no footpaths. My son has to ride six kilometres along the edge of the road to Manor Lakes to catch a bus to school.”
Council’s corporate services director Steve Lambert said the 2012-13 budget provided services and infrastructure for Tarneit and Mount Cottrell residents, including funding for a new kindergarten and nursing home. He said Derrimut Road and a section of Sayers Road were the responsibility of VicRoads.
