Tuesday, 14 November 2023

South-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:05): (549) My question is to the Minister for Local Government, and I ask: when will the minister intervene to ensure that the responsibility to reinstate the $20,000 slip-road outside the Sikh temple in Perry Road, Keysborough, is at the council’s expense and not the responsibility of the Sikh temple, as has been suggested? Since the controversial Greater Dandenong council decision to upgrade Perry Road, council decided to remove the slip-road in the proposed upgrade of Perry Road, which is an 80-kilometre-per-hour road, and the slip-road currently allows safe entry and exit into and out of the temple. Now this is being removed, and according to constituents it has been suggested that the Sikh temple now be responsible for the $20,000 bill to pay for the reinstalment of the slip-road when it is clearly a council and road development error.