Asignificant portion of a popular Millicent park is set to become a service station.
Almost a year ago, a Mount Gambier fuel company announced plans to build an unmanned retail outlet on part of Apex Park near the George Street roundabout.
According to the documents lodged with Plan SA, some trees will be felled, grassed areas paved and the rail tracks and rubble base removed.
Public comment on the application was invited and conditional planning approval was recently given by the Southern Limestone Coast Regional Assessment Panel.
Apex Park was created in the 1960s by members of the now-defunct Millicent Apex Club on parklands and a railway reserve.
It is maintained by Wattle Range Council.
A Millicent real estate company has announced the sale of the railway reserve which has grassed areas, around a dozen mature pine and poplar trees and a 50-metre portion of broad-gauge rail line.
The railway reserve land in various parcels was put on the open market in early-2019 after being in the ownership of the state and colonial governments since the 1870s.
