Village Bakehouse's plans to redevelop Bathurst highway site

Village Bakehouse, which has a history dating back more than 100 years in Dubbo, has lodged plans to open a new drive-through outlet on a highway site.

Victoria Park Barracks Pty Ltd has lodged a development application with Bathurst Regional Council to redevelop a 2149 square metre site at the intersection of Durham and Rankin streets for a new Village Bakehouse outlet.

Village Bakehouse started in Dubbo in 1918 and also has an outlet in Orange.

The development application for the Bathurst outlet includes plans to demolish the vacant former car salesroom at 113 Durham Street and the adjacent home at 105 Durham Street, along with removing site paving and on-site landscaping.

The new bakery would stand on the eastbound side of the highway along a strip that includes a McDonald's, KFC and Red Rooster restaurant.

It will offer drive-through and takeaway sales, and dine-in seating for about 60 customers.

A Statement of Environmental Effects (SoEE) lodged with the DA says the bakery would create 38 jobs and proposes opening hours of 5am-11pm each day.

Cars would access the site from both Rankin and Durham streets.

"The Durham Street facade presents glazed areas balanced with face brickwork whilst the Rankin Street facade will present detailed face brickwork and timber cladding with a painted mural sign on the major timber element," the SoEE states.

"The Durham Street facade is modulated by the gables but also by the interplay of brick and glazing which effectively breaks up the mass of the building."

A heritage report submitted to council notes the site stands within the Bathurst Heritage Conservation Area but does not contain any local or state-listed heritage items.

The intersection of Durham and Rankin streets, Bathurst ...

The rendered brick home at 105 Durham Street, built in 1953, that will be demolished as part of the development "is not considered to be of heritage significance in and of itself but is seen as being contributory to the Heritage Conservation Area and the broader streetscape".

Te SoEE concludes that the proposed bakery is allowable under council's planning rules and "would not result in any adverse environmental, natural, social or economic impacts".

"The development would provide an improved commercial arrangement at an existing commercial site in the locality and thereby provide positive impacts to the local economy," it states.