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Funding received for St Georges Road streetscape

Posted on Thursday 22nd of December, 2016,

Greater Shepparton City Council has received almost $210,000 from the Victorian Government’s Public Safety Infrastructure Fund for improvement works on St Georges Road.

In total, the project cost is $358,000, with Council contributing $149,000.

The project involves the redesign of the streetscape to increase lighting to encourage safe use of the precinct after dark, the addition of more on street parking designed to slow traffic and encourage safe pedestrian movement and increase mixed use as a response to recent crime statistics and feedback from residents concerned about their safety.

Council’s Director Community Kaye Thomson said Council had worked with the St Georges Road community plan group on the funding application.

“Improving the streetscape was one of the action points in the St Georges Road community plan, which was developed throughout 2015,” Ms Thomson said.

St Georges Road community plan group member Kamal Singh said the group have been pursuing this project for a long time and the news comes as a great Christmas gift for the local community.

“The works and overall improved amenity will be fantastic for St Georges Road businesses and residents as it will attract more people to the area to shop and for different events.”

The project will be completed in 2018.