MURTOA Caravan Park’s new cabins are one step closer to becoming a reality.
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Earlier this month Murtoa Progress Association and Lake Marma Reserve Committee of Management had their Pick My Project application to create more accommodation options at the lake approved.
Yarriambiack Shire Council passed a motion at its meeting on October 24 to extend the current lease area at the caravan park.
In her report to the council, chief executive Jessie Holmes said an extension was necessary in order for the cabins to be built.
“In order to accommodate the cabins for planning and public land owners consent the most straightforward process is for the current lease area at 62-3126A is used as the council caravan park at Lake Marma foreshore to be extended,” she said.
“The proposal is to lease the additional area to take in the scout hall area up to the heritage area of the war memorial gates and then license off to the relevant Lake Marma committee for the instillation of cabins.
“The license would cover off on matters related to services, permits, insurance and risk as well as appropriate fire design provisions and maintenance of the lot.”
Speaking to the Wimmera Mail-Times at the time of the Pick My Project announcement, Murtoa Progress Association member Kendra Clegg said plans had been in motion for the project for some time.
“We have been working on it for about a year. It’s so exiting what we’ll be able to achieve. It means so much as a community that we were able to get this running,” she said.
“It will be a three cabin set up by the lake in different configurations. Our goal was to work through the design with the community, so they were already on board with the project when the Pick My Project nominees were announced.”
The council will now ask for community feedback regarding the lease area extension.
Yarriambiack Mayor Graeme Massey said he hoped the community would get behind the project.
“We hope that it all goes through and without objection to save the Scout Hall. There are no Scouts there anymore and it’s an old building that needs a lot of maintenance,” he said.
“If it all goes well, we will licence off our area of land to the Lake Marma committee who will be able to bring the cabins in and install them."