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1. We certainly don’t need another liquor store. It’s a shame a good retail space like this can’t be used for something unique.

   More than five bottle shops in one suburb are not enough?? Who in their right mind would even want to open another outlet with all the competition in the vicinity. Compared to service stations, green grocers, churches, butchers, do we need this much supply of alcohol, who is going to buy and drink all this alcohol ?

   Another bottle shop in the area will only add to the problem of young people buying large quantities of cheap alcohol and wandering around the street. I hope the council have the sense to see whats going on here and put a stop to it before we say 'I told you so'.

2. Do we need another liquor outlet in Pascoe Vale? NO NO NO. Large numbers of bottle shops are linked to higher rates of violence.

   1. This premise is only 200 metres from Pascoe Vale North Primary School gate. If you kids are in this school, what would you say to a new bottle shop? I bet you would say NO. Having a bottle shop 200 metres away from the school would expose students to drunken behaviour and contribute to increased injury, violence, accident and assault rates in Pascoe Vale.

   2. There are a quiet few liquor outlets in this area. The closest one is 600 meters away. why open another one? Bottle shop density links to
   a: consumption and drinking patterns,
   b: drink-driving and traffic accidents,
   c: assault, homicide and other violent crimes,
   d: child abuse and neglect,
   e: sexually transmitted diseases,
   f: drunkenness and neighbourhood disturbances,
   g: property damage and vandalism, and
   h: personal injury

3. Development of this tired shopping strip is long over due and I support this application. I would like to have a bottle shop within closer walking distance of my home than Merlynston. Yes, there are significant social problems resulting from alcohol abuse in particular under age and binge drinking. But these problems will not be solved or even marginally impacted by restricting the availability of packaged alcohol. Frankly I am sick of having my rights and legal behaviour impinged upon due to restrictions aimed at the lowest common denominator. We need to bring vibrant businesses into this area, not drive them away.

4. Let's face it - Moreland Council will give a building permit to anyone who asks-as long as it means they will get more money from rates. You only have to look at how they approve endless developments in this suburb. Single houses are numbered. It is the same for shops-if they are not two or three storeys high with room for multiple apartments-then their days are numbered.

5. if community values, residents concern and rights do matter to council, this plan wouldn't get approved. if council is only interested in money, then it will get a way. Alcohol saturation, with associated violence and crime in our 24/7society is already a serious and growing problem. I hope councillor could check the map or have a look around here, more than FIVE bottle shops within TWO kilometres radiue. Do you call these undersupply or oversupply??? The last thing we need here is more cheap booze.

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