Aproposal to construct a large commercial storage shed on North Terrace in the centre of Millicent has been challenged by four local residents.

John Drew, Moira Neagle and David Walshaw have opposed the Millicent Farm Supplies proposal outright while Peter Dunnicliff has given his conditional support.

All four are Corcoran Ward representatives on Wattle Range Council but are acting as private citizens.

Public comment on the proposal was invited and it will be considered at an upcoming Limestone Southern Regional Assessment Panel meeting in Mount Gambier.

Staff have prepared a 16 page report on the proposal and recommended the development application be refused on planning grounds.

Mr Drew and Mr Walshaw have requested to be heard by the panel while Millicent Farm Supplies will be represented by planning consultant Frank Brennan.

Among the issues raised by the respondents are the impact on future residential development and property prices, visual impact and the land use is contrary to zone policies.

The responses to these issues from Millicent Farm Supplies and planning staff are published in the meeting agenda.

The land in question housed the Millicent power station for much of the twentieth century.

It became the Millicent deport for the Electricity Trust of South Australia in the post-war years.

ETSA was privatised in the 1990s and vacated the North Terrace property.

It then became the base for Millicent Farm Supplies in 2006.

A further area of former railway land facing North Terrace and Cattlebridge Road was purchased by Millicent Farm Supplies in 2020 and is now used for storage purposes.