Wimmera Mail-Times Letters to the Editor - February 17, 2017

Luke Horton
Updated February 16 2017 - 8:09am, first published February 15 2017 - 2:15pm
Former Horsham Rural City mayor Heather Phillips.
Former Horsham Rural City mayor Heather Phillips.

Rushed process

JUST before council elections last year as mayor, I stood in front of two meetings of 100 or more people, who wanted their say about the Horsham Integrated Transport Strategy. The choice to go directly to the community before council endorsement was a deliberate attempt to get better engagement and listen to concerns. Some of the community saw the strategy as a pseudo bypass alternative through Haven and set on a campaign to get council to endorse VicRoads’ option D that we had clearly not agreed with through the extensive planning panel hearing. The strategy was recommended by the planning panel as it saw the logic, put by council, that bypass option D did little to help transport in the short, medium or even long term around Horsham. Also critically important for future planning in Horsham, if we ever hope to get a major government department relocation for our region, was an airport that can grow safely and without impediment. The planning panel wanted both council and VicRoads to do more work before option D got up.

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