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WATCH: Wodonga Councillors share their thoughts on the proposed names for roads in stage 6 of Baranduda's Avalon Park estate at the Monday, July 28, council meeting.

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00:00the names themselves are quite tricky in terms of spelling and pronunciation which could cause

00:04confusion for residents and for postal deliveries um we've had multiple discussions about this and

00:10i honestly believe we could be doing so much better in this space and i'd really like to see

00:15wodonga establish a dedicated street naming committee again um something with community

00:21input that ensures names are locally relevant easy to understand and reflect our identity

00:27so yes i'll support the motion tonight but as i've said previously i hope we can look at improving

00:32the process i won't be actually supporting the motion tonight while i um respect that council staff

00:41might in the future work with developers to ensure a greater diversity of proposed names i think um

00:48we have got we already have got some naming guidelines outlining the statutory requirements

00:55for roads and features and like localities and in 2022 the gender equality act was recognized and

01:05acknowledged in naming in the naming rules just um naming places after women and there are 13 naming

01:13principles in those rules from a to n and principle g is for gender equality uh so when naming and putting

01:22forward a naming proposal consideration should be given to gender equality uh what we have here is uh

01:30one two three five men five men i'm not sure if that is representative of the avalon park estate

01:38overall this is stage six that i think we can find some fine women to uh put to the names of streets in

01:47wadamba and um we haven't done it this time i'm not going to add too much to it but um any standard

01:54developers uh to be responsible for road naming however it is encouraged that there's a collaborative

02:01effort to find um suitable themes and names for new roads and new subdivisions um and there are rules and

02:09principles that need to be done you know it needs to be done according to the naming rules um and whilst

02:17they i would assume that they have because it's been um you know all of these things go through

02:24a reasonably rigorous um assessment um but it always is up to cancel when they come up for us to whether

02:34we adopt them or not um i'll be supporting the recommendation to yes in this in this report but um

02:43yeah i think we can do better but um we probably need to have maybe a workshop around how we implement

02:52that going forward just briefly i will support the motion i agree with councillor aldrich about the

03:00um need for easier spelling uh pronunciation to spelling of uh street names especially in new states

03:10while the residents and any service providers are getting used to them um yes it would be uh nice to

03:21be able to get the names out easily um it is the um right of the developers to uh pick those names and

03:30uh um um while i um recognize uh council accounts uh point that uh gender equality act exists and

03:42calls for uh more gender diversity in the names i uh i'm inclined to uh support the right of the

03:52the developers to uh make the decision being here but uh yes um easier nicer nicer uh nicer stealth and

04:00pronounced names are very welcome thank you

Proposed road names Avalon Park, Wodonga Council | The Border Mail | July 29, 2025

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