PLANS for another $6 million service station at Holbrook which could generate up to 100 jobs in the town have been lodged with Greater Hume Shire.
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The development, if approved, will be comparable in size to the Caltex service station on the southern edge of town which opened about 12 months ago.
Developer Zoya Investments Pty Ltd is in talks with service station operators and fast food chains to be based at the proposed site on the Wagga-Holbrook Road near the Hume Highway off-ramp.
It is presently vacant rural land, but has been identified for highway service centre purposes for more than a decade leading up to Holbrook eventually becoming the final town on the highway between Sydney and Melbourne to be bypassed in 2013.
The latest highway service centre proposal also wants to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week and will be less than two kilometres from the town centre.
“It is envisaged that this new centre will likely employ up to 100 people – being made up of various full-time, part-time employees used throughout alternate shifts – and is estimated to generally operate with some 20 to 30 employees on-site at any one time,” the development application states.
“Additionally, the proposed development seeks to subdivide off the developed area – to be separated from the remaining rural allotment – via a proposed two-lot torrens title sub-division.”
Features of the service station include separate car and truck fuelling bays, convenience store building with a small restaurant dining area, a restaurant, café building with indoor and outdoor seating areas and takeaway food and drink premises building, also with indoor and outdoor seating areas and drive-through facilities.
There will be 134 parking spaces including caravans and trailers, 21 truck parking bays to accommodate semi-trailer and B-triples and a dedicated motorcycle parking area.
Holbrook residents were first alerted to the prospect of a large scale service station being built near the town in 2008.
But discussions with potential operators collapsed two years later.
Caltex elected to build on the southern end of town despite some community opposition.
The $247 million Holbrook bypass was opened by former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in June 2013.
