RESIDENTS of the Albert Ruttle estate west of Inverloch are waiting for the next move in the long-running battle to preserve their wetlands.
The 8ha Albert Ruttle Wetlands Reserve is an important biodiversity site, popular with birdwatchers and walkers from the estate and also the wider Inverloch community, and part of the Inverloch-Wonthaggi biolink,
The development of the wetlands, which featured in marketing of the estate, was a condition of the original planning agreement for the Albert Ruttle subdivision back in 1993.
Or so residents of the estate believed. In 2017 a real estate agent informed them that the heavily wooded reserve was being sold as two housing blocks.