Township gets village green lifeline after council loses funding for toilet side-project
Kelvin was a third-generation Rai Valley man and remembered the pub opening. His mother had worked there. “We saw the Rai Valley Progress League pitch to the council for years about a village green ... and we said, ‘Why can’t we chop that car park in half? It has too many parks’," Tania said. “It would be nice to help give the community a heart.” SUPPLIED Design plans show the tavern plans to turn half of its car park into a village green for Rai Valley, with new public toilets. Designers proposed keeping 29 of the car parks – two of which were disabled spaces – and replac...
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