Plan to turn long-vacant North Brighton site into service station
Finally, there is a plan for a site in North Brighton, that has long sat vacant.
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A service station will be built on a long-vacant site in North Brighton.
Holdfast Bay Council’s planning panel on Wednesday night approved plans by Andrash to build an X Convenience servo at 336-338 Brighton Rd.
It will have eight fuel pumps, a shop, 13 on-site carparks and landscaping, and will be able to be accessed from Brighton Rd and Francis St.
Neighbours raised concerns about the development, including increased noise and traffic, oversupply of petrol stations in the area and the visual impact from advertising.
A council report said the site – which had been vacant for many years – was in the Neighbourhood Centre Zone, which allowed for this kind of development.
“A petrol filling station does not produce any appreciable noise, fumes, smokes, vapours, smells or otherwise which would be comparable to a hard land use, such as industry,” it said.
“As such, the noise impacts of a land use such as a petrol filling station are typically sought to be controlled by means of low scale acoustic treatment, which is the case with this proposal.”
A 2.7m-high fence will be built along the property’s eastern and southern boundaries, to address issues about privacy and noise.
An Andrash spokesperson said the service station would employ up to 15 people and that work on it would start early to mid next year.