Dorset Street Reserve is safe, despite housing development, council promises
How can a 51-home development, Ashbrook Grove, be built next to an area of protected vegetation in Murray Bridge? We investigate.
On a back block in Murray Bridge’s west, a gravel path snakes through an oddly shaped stand of mallee trees and native vegetation.
As far as anyone knows, that vegetation at Dorset Street Reserve has been there since before European settlement.
It has rare value and protected status.
So how was a major housing development approved for the northern half of the block, coming right up to the treeline?
Several readers posed the question to Murray Bridge News in recent months, so we went looking for answers.
Here’s what we found.
