A new medical centre is planned on the spot where the Pleasant Street Takeaway once stood.
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The facility is earmarked for the vacant land at 315 Pleasant Street South, after the building containing the popular fish and chip shop was demolished earlier this year.
A planning permit has just been lodged with the City of Ballarat, which includes details of the proposed two-storey medical centre.
The application says there would be a maximum of 16 practitioners at any one time, with suggested opening hours of 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 1pm on Saturday.
There would be two pedestrian accesses on the western side of the building on Pleasant Street South - one for each floor - with a third access from the car park area on the eastern side of the property.
The plans include space for a suggested 27 car parking spaces.
As a corner block sandwiched between South Street and and Isabella Place, the medical centre would have only one neighbouring property. The application says there would be appropriate fencing between the two.
Other landmarks in the area include the Bunch of Grapes hotel which lies across South Street road on Pleasant Street South.
Prior to the fish and chip shop, which came third in a poll of Ballarat's best fish and chips in 2017, the site was used as a service station.
See artist's impression of the proposed medical facility:
A contamination assessment was included as part of the planning assessment, which concludes the site is "suitable for continued commercial use and a statutory environmental audit is not required."
Documents name the developers as Monsien Holdings Pty Ltd, who are also behind a 10-dwelling Mount Helen apartment development at the corner of Eddy and Boak avenues.
It attracted more than 100 objections after planning documents were filed, and in January last year the application for was rejected by City of Ballarat Council.
That decision was overturned on appeal to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
TGM, the company submitting the Pleasant Street South plans on behalf of Monsien Holdings, has been contacted for comment about the development.
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