Giuseppina Fishing Company has lodged a land division application with the council to create 274 lots between Milton Avenue and Boundary Road.

The company withdrew a similar application in 2004 for 146 allotments to wait for the land to be rezoned residential in the Port Lincoln City Council’s development plan, which has since happened.

The development would be staged over a number of years and the developer will have to upgrade Milton Avenue as a condition of development approval, to accommodate the extra traffic expected.

The upgrade will include widening the road to eight metres, constructing a 1.2-metre footpath, installing a kerb and channel on the north side of the road, improving the radius of the curve between Kurla Street and Imba Street, and upgrading the Milton Avenue/Kurla Street junction giving Kurla Street traffic priority.

Consultants predicted the original plan would have added 1380 cars a day to traffic along Milton Avenue, bringing traffic volumes close to 2000 a day.

The new plan with extra allotments could be expected to generate well in excess of 2000 cars a day and consultant Frank Siow suggested a 10.6-metre road width would be more appropriate for this volume but it would not be possible given the terrain.

Council director of operations Geoff Dodd said the council’s Living Areas Master Plan had identified a new north south connector road north of Hilltop Drive to join up with the extension of Milton Avenue, which the developer had included in the application.

Mr Dodd said the development would be staged over a number of years and recommended the council identify an appropriate north south corridor, and set aside road reserves in the next two years in anticipation future development.