Millicent is considered awash with new commercial enterprises going by the number and variety of the development applications lodged with the planning authorities.

These are in addition to the four separate service station developments already in train.

Plans have been put forward to build a shop on vacant land in Davenport Street Millicent and adjacent to McCourt’s Garden Centre and Café.

Elsewhere on Davenport Street, the new owners of the one-time office and printing works of The South Eastern Times are looking to create two allotments.

Millicent Farm Supplies has invited public comment on its proposal to erect a large shed at its retail outlet at North Terrace, Millicent.

The retailer occupies buildings and land formerly owned by the Electricity Trust of South Australia and the Department of Transport.

Long-time landowner Doug MacLennan wants to create a seven-block residential sub-division on Belt Road at Millicent.

He intends to call it “MacLennan Court””.

There have been four other sub-divisions leading off Belt Road over the past 30 years.

Land sub-divisions are also being sought by two landowners in the area of Millicent commonly known as “Woodlands” or “The six-acre blocks”.

The new local owner of the Millicent rail lands has removed dozens of self-sown and other trees from the area and levelled a vacant block facing Railway Terrace and adjacent to the former station master’s house.

In recent months, Millicent’s main thoroughfare George Street has welcomed a tobacconist and a ladies clothing shop, a butcher shop has reopened and the Bedford commercial laundry building has been sold.

Millicent again has a public laundromat after an absence of a few months and it is located in Kentish Place.

Another rural supplies enterprise is now operating at Cull’s Corner at the intersection of Williams and Rendelsham roads.