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  • CBD Height and density

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    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…

  • Darwin CBD – Building Permit System

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    Question: Darwin CBD – Building Permit System Question Date: 10/06/2009 Member: Ms WALKER To: MINISTER for PLANNING and LANDS QUESTION Can you please update the House on what proposed changes to the Northern Territory permit scheme will mean to the Darwin CBD, and whether there have been any alternative policies put forward? ANSWER Madam Speaker,…

  • Defence of Darwin Museum

    Defence of Darwin Museum

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    Is it a museum or a trivial tribute? [readon1 url=”index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=106&Itemid=186″]Read More[/readon1] Share this content

  • Conveners Message

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    To me one of the many pleasures of living in the NT is sitting quietly with the Weekend Australian on a Sunday morning while the wildlife goes about its business in my garden. Share this content

  • 2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

    2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

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    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

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

  • Amenity Defined

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    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…

  • 2024 06 Smith Street Streetscape

    2024 06 Smith Street Streetscape

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    This submission closes 3 July 2024. https://engage.darwin.nt.gov.au/shape-smith-street It took me a while to understand the graphics, the people in full pandemic suites were distracting, make sure you open the pdf here SmithStLandscape_-_For_Consultation.pdf to get the overhead view. Driving towards the mall from the roundabout, on the left and right a bike path will be introduced. It…

  • Media release regarding DHA Lee Point housing project

    Media release regarding DHA Lee Point housing project

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    The community leaders, organisations and people below call for the resignation of the Board and senior officials of Defence Housing Australia (DHA). We also call for a transparent investigation by Work Safe NT, and the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy and Water into repeated and ongoing breaches of relevant site safety legislation and Federal…

  • How $40m redevelopment of Civic Centre could change Darwin CBD

    How $40m redevelopment of Civic Centre could change Darwin CBD

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    The City of Darwin is currently assessing proposals for the redevelopment of its 1960s-era Civic Centre, with the council keen to partner with private investment to include things like hotels, accommodation, function centres and water features as part of the works. The council has allocated $40.1m of its $61m capital works program budget for 2024–25…