COUNCILLOR Bill McClenaghan has fought to find a revised site for the proposed Bullarto facilities, saying the community was "deeply divided" on the matter.
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The new facilities will include a picnic table and signage and are planned for the old tennis court site, adjacent to the Bullarto Hall.
The proposal site was approved by councillors in August this year.
But Cr McClenaghan is now urging councillors to put on hold all works until new information is considered.
He said if construction proceeded on the current site, the hall committee would be "severely constrained" in their fundraising and event-holding abilities.
The Bullarto Community Hall Committee of Management Incorporated (BCHC) has leased the council land for many years, and say land will be required for overflow car parking and a large marquee for future events.
It was originally thought the BCHC only needed this land to run the annual Bullarto Tractor Pull.
But Cr McClenaghan said the BCHC had supplied council with a list of hall bookings that refute this claim absolutely.
"The Bullarto Community Planning Group wishes to construct community facilities on the old tennis court site that will interfere with the BCHC’s ability to conduct their various bookings, events and functions," he said.
"Although the proposed picnic shelter may occupy only one per cent of the said land, its location will be right where the large marquees are erected.
"Another conflict situation will be the 100-metre interface between council land and the hall land that will blur issues like insurance, vehicle access and property control."
In early December 2014, a detailed mapping search and site visit has identified three other sites within the township of Bullarto that might be alternatively considered.
Cr McClenaghan said one viable site was an old road reserve block, on the corner of South Bullarto Road and Fiddlers Lane.
"This would surely create a win win for everyone as the community facilities will be built within the Bullarto township and the BCHC will get to keep using the old tennis court site."
However his motion was lost, after Hepburn Shire councillors voted to continue with works at the agreed site.