1st "Saturday Get Together" held on 22nd November, 2008

Several Lake Gardens residents met at the local Lake Gardens cafe on Saturday 22nd at 10.30 am discussing the latest developments against the proposed recycling plant. Ideas were shared about rezoning of the land around Lake Gardens into gardens/residential precinct. There were also discussions about the Ballarat-Skipton Rail Trail being extended to Lake Wendouree. This part of the track is right behind the Lake Gardens fence.
"...the surveying work has begun to extend it to Gillies St via Gregory St West. The track will also take in the new Wendouree Train Station, which is currently being built near the corner of Gillies and Howitt streets. Council's open space maintenance manager Cameron Duthie
said the link to Lake Wendouree would be almost 2km long." (Source: Ballarat Courier - last visited on Saturday 22 Nov, 2008)

This is one more reason for rezoning the industrial land between the Gregory St West and the railway tracks.
Proximity of Lake Gardens residencies, new train station, new golf course and proposed retirement village.