Victorian population growth - Werribee goes nuts

[GoodFootyNorth]

Interesting to see in the Age this week that Werribee (and to a lesser extent Ballarat) are growing like crazy.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/people-our-biggest-import-20100330-rbhv.html?autostart=1

MELBOURNE is squeezing up. A record 93,500 more people poured into the city in 2008-09, the biggest population growth any Australian city has seen.

specifically:

Wyndham, the municipality that covers Werribee, alone grew by 10,758, or 8 per cent. Fifteen years ago, that was almost as much as the whole of Victoria was growing.

Ballarat is the equal second largest rural growth area, behind Geelong (although the numbers are much smaller).

Makes you realize just how strategically critical our alignments with Werribee and North Ballarat are in the long-term growth of our supporter base. Hopefully any new eastern Australian reserves comp doesn't stuff this up.

Also, a reminder of how silly the decisions were in the last decade to chase questionable new markets all over Australia which alienated our local supporter base, when there were perfectly good alternatives here in Victoria. We'll pay for that for a while, but hopefully over time we can really make something of our current strategy.

 

[Zvim]

Definitely and more critically there is a lot of crown land between Werribee and Ballarat which is bound to be opened up for development.

It is great news for North, Geelong and Bulldogs as well who are all have the foot in the door in the west/northwest.

 

[NMB 2008]

I posted a non unrelated thread not long ago - FYI I don't live in Werribee or Ballarat

 

[Twinkletoes]

I posted a non unrelated thread not long ago - FYI I don't live in Werribee or Ballarat

Ahhhhh, the old double negative = a positive trick.

Anyone who's taken the Western Ring Rd onto The Western Fwy, via the newish Deer Park Bypass, can see the thousands of acres free for development, and the thousands of acres which were not long ago free for development. They're now packed solid with homes. It's astonishing, the rate of progress going on out there.

I'm with you GFN, it's a top move (albeit late) to be concentrating our resources out West towards Ballarat. It's our future!