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Waurn Ponds Train Maintenance & Stabling GOVERNMENT LAND STANDING ADVISORY COMMITTEE REGIONAL RAIL –WAURN PONDS TRAIN MAINTENANCE & STABLING FACILITY GREATER GEELONG & SURF COAST PLANNING SCHEME AMENDMENT GC104 STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE PREPARED BY STUART MCGURN FEBRUARY 2020 INTRODUCTION 1. My name is Stuart Andrew McGurn and I am a Director of Urbis Pty Ltd (Urbis) which conducts its business at Level 12, 120 Collins Street, Melbourne. My qualifications and experience are described in Appendix A. 2. I have been instructed by Ashurst Lawyers on behalf of Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) to undertake a town planning review of exhibited Amendment GC104 to the Greater Geelong and Surf Coast Planning Schemes. Rail Projects Victoria are responsible for delivering the Regional Rail Revival (RRR) program of works on behalf of the State of Victoria. 3. The amendment affects existing private rural land (and areas of public land and roadways) at, and around 255 Reservoir Road, Waurn Ponds. It proposes to implement new planning scheme controls to facilitate the Waurn Ponds Train Maintenance and Stabling Facility. The site locality relative to Geelong is depicted at Figure 1. Figure 1: Approximate Locality of Project Land in Relation to Greater Geelong 4. The project is proposed in two stages: • Stage 1 will occupy an area of approximately 11 hectares south of the existing railway line and directly east of the farm laneway at the centre of the site and west of Bogans Lane. The area would accommodate six open stabling tracks to store, refuel and clean and service trains. Operations would occur up to 24 hours a day. • Stage 2 is intended to include additional stabling, a maintenance facility, including a train wash plant and bio wash, expanded staff and driver amenities, and administration and training facilities. Stage 2 is planned to increase stabling capacity up to 26 trains and include large buildings. 5. Each stage would include earthworks and landscaping. Stage 1 of the proposed facility in Waurn Ponds was allocated funding in the 2015-2016 Victorian State Budget. The timing of Stage 2 is subject to further government review. URBIS 2 STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE GREATER GEELONG AND SURF COAST AMENDMENT GC104 6. The Government Land Standing Advisory Committee have been appointed by the Minister for Planning to report on the proposed changes to the planning provisions to the land as described in the Terms of Reference (Version 3: April 2018). 7. The site has been selected on the basis of key locational and design criteria specific to the functional needs of the rail corridor as identified in the ‘Proposed Waurn Ponds Train Maintenance and Stabling Facility Site Investigation Summary’. By way of background I note that I have been provided with material in relation to alternative sites reviewed for their suitability to accommodate the facility. 8. My review of the proposed Amendment has been informed having regard to undertaking the following tasks and reviewing the following documents: • An inspection of the subject site and the surrounding area (including a number of submitter properties). • An inspection of the operational train stabling and maintenance facility at Pakenham East and a stabling facility at Maddingley. • The Greater Geelong and Surf Coast Planning Scheme and reference documents of relevance. • Exhibited Surf Coast and Greater Geelong Planning Scheme Amendment GC104. • Specialist (environmental and technical) Investigation reports exhibited with GC104 • G21 Regional Growth Plan, April 2013 • ‘Connecting Regional Victoria’ – Victoria’s Regional Network Development Plan, 2016. • The State and Commonwealth Regional Rail Revival Program • Greater Geelong Amendment C395 Settlement Strategy • Great Ocean Road Regional Landscape Assessment Study, 2003 • Submissions to Amendment GC104 • Ministerial Direction 11 ‘Strategic Assessment Guidelines for Planning Scheme Amendments’ and other Ministerial Directions relevant to the Amendment. • Amendment GC104 - Part A Submissions of Rail Project Victoria (28.1.2020). 9. A summary of my opinion in relation to proposed Amendment GC104 is: • The project is strategically important to the growth of the Geelong Region envisaged in the G21 Regional Growth Plan and the Melbourne Metropolitan Strategy and other supporting documents. • The proposed Planning Scheme Amendment is an appropriate tool for the implementation of a large scale infrastructure project of this nature and meets the strategic assessment guidelines for Planning Scheme Amendments. • The project will affect the rural outlook for adjacent properties (and from public areas) to greater and lesser degrees. Further, the proposal will result in localised amenity impacts on surrounding public areas and on immediately surrounding properties and their residents with the most significant impacts being on the primary land holder, however such impacts are inevitable for a project of this scale and nature and have been mitigated and reduced where possible. • The proposal will have positive economic and social effects for the Geelong Region and can be accommodated without significant environmental impacts. • On balance, important and wide reaching net community benefit will be derived from the project, weighing in favour of its approval, notwithstanding the localised amenity impacts. 10. I declare that I have made all the enquiries that I believe are desirable and that no matters of significance which I regard as relevant have, to my knowledge, been withheld from the Advisory Committee. URBIS GREATER GEELONG AND SURF COAST AMENDMENT GC104 STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE 3 BACKGROUND 11. The Amendment is proposed to allow construction of railway infrastructure to support improvements to V/Line regional passenger rail services in the Melbourne – Geelong Rail Corridor. 12. The Melbourne – Geelong Corridor is the busiest of the five principle V/Line corridors radiating from the Melbourne CBD. The commuting zone extends 85 kilometres from Southern Cross Station to Waurn Ponds, before continuing on to Warrnambool. Rail Projects Victoria have stated that strong population growth in the Geelong and Wyndham regions, a growing disconnect between employment and residential location and increasing road congestion is driving ongoing patronage growth on the rail corridor. 13. This growth has resulted in the number of rail cars in the fleet more than doubling between 2007 and 2017. This has necessitated an increase in train stabling and maintenance facilities servicing the Geelong Fleet and line. I am instructed that this capacity demand cannot be accommodated in the existing facilities. 14. ‘The Regional Network Development Plan’ (RNDP) 2016 is the long term plan for transport investment in regional Victoria and notes the need to address short, medium and long term stabling and maintenance requirements of the regional rail network. In response, the Waurn Ponds facility has been identified as a key project to address existing capacity and operational issues in the Geelong, Melbourne and Warrnambool rail Corridor. 15. Key reasons for the facility are cited as: • Support continued patronage growth in the Melbourne – Geelong corridor • Provide more efficient and effective maintenance of the Velocity Fleet • Allow for additional services south of Geelong Station • Limit ‘dead running’ trains travelling to and from Waurn Ponds to current stabling and maintenance sites. • Address capacity constraints in the network. 16. Remove/reduce impacts on passenger services between Geelong and Waurn Ponds and have only minor interaction with relatively infrequent services to the Warrnambool line. 17. The material exhibited with the amendment includes a planning report prepared by AECOM, this outlines the key selection criteria for the facility location (p.8 and 9). These are: Operational requirement criteria Gradient (Preliminary considerations) Timeframe for completion Length Proximity to Waurn Ponds Railway Station Environmental and development criteria The location of watercourses (Refining considerations) Location of residences Road access Rail access Earthworks or rehabilitation Cultural heritage 18. I am instructed that between 2007 and 2017, twelve sites were investigated by the Department of Transport and Public Transport Victoria in the Waurn Ponds locality as part of the site selection process. The subject land was considered the only site of those considered to meet the criteria. 19. A detailed ‘Project Outline and Rationale’ has been provided with the ‘Part A’ submissions of Rail Projects Victoria outlining these matters. URBIS 4 STATEMENT OF EVIDENCE GREATER GEELONG AND SURF COAST AMENDMENT GC104 SUBJECT LAND AND LOCALITY 20. The proposed project is located approximately 10 - 15 km south west of Geelong and approximately 4 km south west of the Waurn Ponds Railway Station within the existing Geelong to Warrnambool rail corridor. The land falls primarily within Greater Geelong and also within the Surf Coast Shire (west of Pettavel Road). The affected land comprises the primary area of ‘project land’ and the ‘wider project land’, identified at Figure 2 and described in the Planning Scheme Amendment documents. Figure 2: Project Land and Wider Project Area – Amendment GC104 Surf Coast and Greater Geelong THE PROJECT LAND 21. The ‘Project Land’ is identified as ‘all areas of land required within the Site for the purposes of the Project’ being a portion of the private land at 255 Reservoir Road 350 metres south of the rail corridor between Pettavel Road (to the west) and Bogans Lane (to the east). 22. The land is part of a
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