Land will be acquired from the golf club and a church to build a roundabout at "an extremely dangerous intersection" in Warragul.

Cr Danny Goss described the four-way roundabout as "a massive project" for the town, providing a west to east link and boosting traffic flow and safety at the intersection of Sutton St, Pharaohs Rd and Longview Rd.
The project also will provide access to a future school site and straighten Sutton St to the adjacent Tarwin St intersection.
However, while the decision gets the project "to the next stage," Cr Goss emphasised "it's certainly not going to be built in the next five minutes".
Set out in Warragul's Precinct Structure Plan (PSP), Baw Baw Shire councillors unanimously authorised the compulsory acquisition of land from the Warragul Country Club and Church on Tarwin. A residential property at 1 Tarwin St was acquired in 2021.
An officer report noted the 165 square metres of land to be acquired at 41 Sutton St was a small section in the south-west corner of the golf club, near the fourth hole.
It said Warragul Country Club and council had agreed in principle that a Crown road parcel be exchanged for two areas required for the roundabout. The cost to council will be fencing, tree removal and legal fees.
A 1315 square metre of land acquired from 7 and 7A Tarwin St is owned by Church on Tarwin. A request for the land at the back of the church property was made during initial designing.
The roundabout will be funded by the Warragul Developer Contribution Plan (DCP) and council.
While a detailed design is close to completion and construction is estimated at six to eight months, the report said the intersection was not required until stage 73 of the Waterford Rise development.
Although it is unknown when this stage may be developed, council was told Baw Baw Developments had expressed interest "to deliver the roundabout sooner". Further discussions are set for November.
As well as providing alternate traffic flow around Warragul and an entry/exit point for traffic to Waterford Rise, the report said the new roundabout would enhance visibility, define priority roads, optimise turning radius, remove the dog-leg intersection, accommodate for heavy vehicles and improve pedestrian safety.
Cr Suzanne Allen said the roundabout would manage ever increasing traffic "in a much safer manner."
Cr Allen said all stakeholders were in agreeance to move this project forward, adding "if only it could all be like that."
When the residential block was acquired four years ago, Cr Ben Lucas said he thought a roundabout "out the back" was ridiculous.
"Driving from Drouin to Warragul, we absolutely need it and it's a fantastic project," Cr Lucas said.
Cr Paul Pratt described it as a busy and dangerous intersection, with motorists often not obeying stop signs.
"It's quite dangerous out there, it's very fiddly," Cr Pratt said. "At school time, the traffic trying to flow through that space is just one of many examples of where we've got traffic congestion."
He called it a "first step" of bypass planning in Warragul and Drouin, stating "we've got to keep doing that as we continue to grow".
Cr Goss said this was never going to be a simple roundabout, however, enough funds had been set aside in the DCP as initial plans were for a signalised intersection.
With thousands of vehicles using the intersection every day, he described it "an extremely dangerous intersection" with the current t-intersection only a temporary solution.
"The plans have taken a long time, it's been a long history," Cr Goss said. "This is a massive project for Warragul to get cars in and out."