THE site of Inglewood’s former community-owned service station will be demolished as plans progress for the proposed town streetscape project.
Tenders for demolition closed with Loddon Shire Council last week as plumbers turned off water connections to the building. Powercor is expected to remove remaining electrical connections this week.
Council operations director Steve Phillips said the tender was expected to be let shortly with demolition soon after.
The site on the corner of Brooke and Heales Streets became a community co-operative service station in the early 1990s with local residents volunteering to keep the business open.
When the co-operative closed the business in the early 2000s, the land was handed over to Loddon Shire. 
Sources have told the Loddon Herald that the service station’s location on a dangerous Calder Highway bend had limited options for the site. Draft streetscape concepts in recent years have included a garden on the corner.