On June 23, the couple received a letter that stated their Leakes Road property was in the path of the proposed outer metropolitan ring road and the $4.3billion Regional Rail Link, from West Werribee to Deer Park.

Initially, they thought the rail line was going to travel through vacant land opposite their four-hectare property, which is between Gard and Davis roads.

However, following a meeting with a Wyndham Council's town planner, they were shown a map that indicated the road would virtually slice through the front of the property, while the rail line would be right at their back doorstep.

Although work on the ring road is not scheduled to get under way for at least a decade, construction on the Regional Rail Link is expected to start next year and be completed by 2014.

More than 300 landowners face having their properties compulsorily acquired by the Government over the next decade to make way for the two projects, and for 15,000 hectares of new grasslands reserves at Mt Cottrell and Little River.

The proposed ring road would stretch 93kilometres from the Princes Freeway in Werribee to Thomastown, while the rail line, would include 50kilometres of new track and travel on to Southern Cross. The new rail link would separate the metropolitan and regional networks, meaning Geelong trains would no longer travel through Werribee but take the dedicated V/Line track, avoiding country trains being held up by suburban services.

The new route includes new stations at Manor Lakes and Wyndham Vale, and four others in the vicinity of Dohertys Road, Truganina, Davis Road, Tarneit, Sewells Road, Tarneit and Black Forest Road, West Werribee.

Mr Cassar said they were struggling with the prospect of being forced from their home.

"We raised our children here, and over the year's we've had to fight to get everything from electricity, roads, postal deliveries and a rubbish collection, and even now, we're still on tank water. This is what we've worked for all our lives and now it looks like it will all go up in smoke."