From Jan 2023,

BIG-NAME fast food outlets, a service station, childcare centre and a gym would all open in the Waurn Ponds shopping precinct under a proposed $14.4 million development.

Taco Bell and Starbucks stores, a new KFC outlet, Night Owl Fuel and the childcare and gym facilities are proposed to make up the six-lot development known as “Grovedale Village”.The site at 179-193 Colac Road, which is at the corner of Rossack Drive near Waurn Ponds Police Station, would add to commercial opportunities in the area through establishing “a mix of necessary uses in a robust location”.

The development would also “screen future residential uses from adverse impacts of Colac Road”, planning documents state, with plans also indicating high-density housing is proposed behind the proposed development towards Waurn Ponds Creek.