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Andrew Fairley Public Verbal Hearing

A public hearing on the proposed discontinuation and proposed sale of part of Andrew Fairley Avenue Shepparton was held at Eastbank yesterday.

This was to allow for people who had provided written submissions to present verbally to councillors of Greater Shepparton City Council.

From 1pm yesterday 69 people presented their submission verbally. Of the 69 there were three presenters for the proposal and 66 against. The meeting was closed just before 8pm with a further meeting scheduled for 4pm on Friday 30th May to adopt the Committees report from of the verbal submissions received from the meeting.

Council received over 1300 written submissions by the 22nd May deadline, over 1000 of these were on pro forma letters.

Councillors will now have until a Special Council Meeting on 10th June 2014 to read all submissions including transcripts of the verbal submissions. The Special Council Meeting will be held at 5.30pm at the Eastbank Centre, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton and is open to the public. The meeting will be advertised on social media, Council's website and in the Shepparton News.