Author: PLan

  • 2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

    2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

    Dear PLan Members, Supporters and Contacts, This is to remind you that the Tropical Garden Spectacular is on again this Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd June, 2012. It will be full of exhibits, competitions, innovations, and information presentations on the theme of sustainability, in the delightful atmosphere of Darwin’s George Brown Botanic Gardens. Too…

  • Anendo Report on Coastal Communities

    Anendo Report on Coastal Communities

    Submission on the Inquiry into climate change and environmental impacts on coastal communities. Anendo-and-Coastal-Communities.pdf

  • Amenity Defined

    PLan was part of the movement to have amenity defined. We would have preferred that the definition did not specify locality or building and continue to request its removal from the definition. Planning Act Section 3 Interpretation amenity, in relation to a locality or building, means any quality, condition or factor that makes or contributes…

  • Alawa Oval Disappearing

    Alawa Oval Disappearing

    Government ignores community’s rights to our open space [readon1 url=”index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=186″]Read More[/readon1]

  • Almost loss of Alawa School Oval

    Alawa is a quiet treed suburb  settled in the 1970’s. It is where the Alawa Primary School and its oval is a central facility and open space recreation resource for the community. This attractive  pattern of Commonwealth planning was the standard for all our  northern suburbs. Amidst NT Government secrecy from the communities, both of…

  • Bayview Development – Sign the online petition to save our mangroves

    Mangroves are crucial to the health of our Top End coasts – supplying us with oxygen, storing carbon and providing nurseries for important commercial and recreational fish.

  • CBD Height and density

    Minister Lawrie has set in train a proposed amendment to the NT Planning Scheme to which we have twenty eight days to respond. The proposal is to have a 90 metre limit on buildings throughout the whole CDB and provide no setbacks. Details are on the NT Planning Notice website. There is a history behind…

  • Knuckey and Ironstone Lagoon (and related areas) Discussion Paper towards an Area PLan

    This is a 50 page detailed study with the purpose of use of this area at Berrimah, and beyond for the expansion of Darwin. Share your knowledge of the area,  look at the options proposed, contact the Planning Commission for more information, and make a submission by 9 August, 2013. Note that there will be…

  • ATTENTION! IMPORTANT PROPOSED LEGISLATION AMENDMENT- PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS AND PROPERTY

    Changes are proposed under the NT Titles Legislation. Unit title owners should check the NT Department of Attorney General and Justice website. (Click at right in list, under Issues and Consultations for background paper – Cancellation of Unit Plans and schemes). Cut off date for comments is now extended.  The industry has made its comments.…

  • Greater Darwin PLan

    Greater Darwin PLan

    This is a copy of the submission from PLan on the NT Goverrment’ s Proposed Greater Darwin Plan. The community of Greater Darwin should feel very concerned about the impact of certain aspects of the proposed plan upon the lives of themselves and their families.The Greater Darwin Plan – PLan’s Comments 2012We thank all those…