WEDNESDAY’S Southern Grampians Shire Council (SGSC) meeting laboured at length through a planning permit application with one councillor taking issue with the potential for a risky precedent to be set concerning funding for major projects.

The application for the proposed mental health service centre at 122-124 Lonsdale Street was presented by SGSC Wellbeing, Planning and Regulation director, Rory Neeson, detailing the $5 million facility comprising “six consulting rooms, office spaces, back of house areas, a sensory garden and a parking lot with access by St. Mary’s Lane”.