Bacchus Marsh Grammar applies to build $14.5m science building

A school in the state’s west has applied for permission to build a three-storey science faculty complete with communal terrace and roof garden.

Bacchus Marsh Grammar has submitted a development application for a $14.5m, two-storey science building. Picture: Moorabool Shire Council documents

A private school in the state’s west has applied for permission to build a $14.5m new science building, replete with amphitheatres, laboratories, a communal terrace, and a roof garden.

Bacchus Marsh Grammar in Maddingley submitted documents to Moorabool Shire Council in June containing its plans for a three-storey, 968 sqm science faculty parallel to south Maddingley Rd.

The whole work site would be more than 2500 sqm and involve 15,000 sqm of landscaping, including the demolition of senior school classrooms, and a staff resource centre.

Landscaping proposed around the new building. Picture: Moorabool Shire Council documents

A render of the rooftop garden. Picture: Moorabool Shire Council documents

The building would contain laboratories, an amphitheatre, and amenities on the first floor; classrooms, labs, offices, and another amphitheatre on the second; and labs, a terrace, roof garden, and services plant room on the third.

Landscaping nearby the building includes

The application has previously been before the state’s planning minister and now requires Moorabool Shire Council approval.

A comparable $16m expansion at Bacchus Marsh Grammar’s Woodlea campus was given the green light in 2022.