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Clarence City Council supports Tasmania Golf Club on Tasman Highway roundabout proposal

One of Tasmania’s top golf courses has found an ally in its fight to stop a new roundabout going through its 16th hole.

Tasmania Golf Club professional and pro shop owner Nick White and committee member Andrew Todd on the driving range, which is where a new roundabout would be placed under one option being considered in the Tasman Highway duplication. Picture: PATRICK GEE
Tasmania Golf Club professional and pro shop owner Nick White and committee member Andrew Todd on the driving range, which is where a new roundabout would be placed under one option being considered in the Tasman Highway duplication. Picture: PATRICK GEE

ONE of Tasmania’s top golf courses has found an ally in its fight to stop a new roundabout going through its 16th hole.

Clarence City Council has resolved not to support any loss of land at the Tasmania Golf Club from widening the Tasman Highway and installing a new roundabout between Hobart Airport interchange and Midway Point.

The roadworks would take up most of the 16th hole, one-third of the dam, the practice fairway and maintenance area.

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Clarence Mayor Doug Chipman said the council would seek further information from the Department of State Growth on its proposals to combat traffic congestion on the stretch of highway.

“Council does not support any solution that would see the Tasmania Golf Club lose any land and has requested a briefing from department officers that informs council of proposed traffic congestion solutions to improve travel time reliability within the Hobart to Sorell region,” Alderman Chipman said.

The two options proposed to upgrade the Tasman Highway to help reduce congestion between the Hobart Airport and Midway Point causeway.
The two options proposed to upgrade the Tasman Highway to help reduce congestion between the Hobart Airport and Midway Point causeway.

The Tasmania Golf Club has previously said it fears it may need to close if the option to build the roundabout on its land was chosen.

The other option currently on the table would see the highway and roundabout built on private property opposite the golf course, which would affect native bushland believed to contain two of Tasmania’s endemic native orchids, both classified as critically endangered.

Councillor Tony Mulder said the current State Government proposals would only shift traffic down the road.

“Expediting traffic flow through Midway Point and the Airport turn off only ‘kicks the can’ down the road, extending the morning crawl from Mornington out to Cambridge — just a kilometre or two up the road from where they are queuing now,” he said.

Cr Mulder said not all Tasman Bridge traffic needed to go into the city and a link from Lauderdale to the Bowen Bridge would relieve congestion both at the eastern end of the bridge and at Clearys Gate where the Lower Domain Rd meets Brooker Ave.

jack.paynter@news.com.au

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