Category: Community Alert

  • Bayview Lots 5988 and 7433, Town of Darwin Development Application

    Bayview Lots 5988 and 7433, Town of Darwin Development Application

    RALLY – Public Meeting Thursday 9th February 5:30pm at Latrobe Park, all welcome. In a Darwin wet season application, two poorly placed pink signs have appeared in Bayview. Residents have been given 2 weeks to comment on the rezoning to create an additional 21 lots mostly in the sub 500sqm size. Now that there is no public…

  • Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct

    Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct

    Closing October 2022 this consulation to quote: The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (DIPL) is seeking environmental approval for a ‘development ready’ industrial precinct on the Middle Arm peninsula. If approved, it may include low emission hydrocarbons, renewable hydrogen, minerals processing, carbon capture and storage and advanced manufacturing. The precinct would cover approximately 1500…

  • Old Asti Motel Site

    Old Asti Motel Site

    Make a submission You can make a submission by emailing das.ntg@nt.gov.au You must sign your uploaded submission to ensure that it is valid under the Planning Act. A valid signed submission includes a hand-signed document that is scanned and/or photographed; a name typed at the bottom of an email or uploaded document; or a JPG (or similar)…

  • Amendment to Holtze to Elizabeth River Subregional Land Use Plan

    Amendment to Holtze to Elizabeth River Subregional Land Use Plan

    Hello Everyone, This is closing on the 15th of April 2022. Please return to this page as we will be updating over the next few days. PROPOSAL TO AMEND NT PLANNING SCHEME PA2022/0011 PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE NT PLANNING SCHEME 2020 TO INCLUDE THE HOLTZE TO ELIZABETH RIVER SUBREGIONAL LAND USE PLAN AS A POLICY…

  • Malak Caravan Carve Up Carnage

    On the NT Gov Planning site there is a proposal to carve up the Malak Caravan site.  Submissions close Midnight Friday, 15 April 2022. https://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/planning-notices-online/notices#/ On this page we have the Rezoning and the Current Proposal.  OUR THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT PROPOSAL ARE:  Why has no referral to the EPA occurred given the proximity to Rapid Creek.  A significant…

  • Saving Flagstaff Park – Urgent Alert Volunteers Wanted

    DAY/DATE: Thursday 17th February 2022 TIME: 4:30pm – 6:30pm LOCATION: Raffles Plaza, Suite 8 / Level 1, 1 Buffalo Court, DARWIN NT 0800 RSVP: info@planinc.org.au This PLan workshop is to secure Flagstaff Park in future, for all. On 5 February 2003, Clare Martin as Chief Minister, by Government Media Release, declared Flagstaff Park, at the…

  • Rapid Creek Road – Thin Edge of the Wedge

    Rapid Creek Road – Thin Edge of the Wedge

    Closing 18th February 2022 – Public Meeting 5:30 Monday 14th February opposite 37 Rapid Creek Road This is a very concerning application that will change the amenity of Rapid Creek Road and create an unacceptable precedent in the northern suburbs. Tropics Consultancy Group has applied to the Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics for an Exceptional Development Permit…

  • Playford Street Racecourse Creek clearing

    Playford Street Racecourse Creek clearing

    Sue of Fannie Bay asks who made the decision to close the Parap Pool for maintenance in the middle of the school holidays and the hottest time of the year? The answer is the City of Darwin (COD) and as a resident next to the Playford street Racecourse Creek / Drain I can report on…

  • A permitted use under the NT Planning Scheme 2020 may not require a development permit

    From the desk of Planning Reform Team, Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics This closes Midnight Friday, 4 March 2022 Here are the attachments: http://planinc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/111907261_Detailed_Information_Paper.pdf http://planinc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/111907263_Integrated_Schedule_of_Amendments.pdf http://planinc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/111907277_Summary_Paper.pdf http://planinc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/111907280_Appendix_C_-_Supplementary_Information.pdf 111907283_Appendix_B_-_Individual_Project_Amendments_-_Designing_Better.pdf 111907285_Appendix_A_-_Individual_Project_Amendments_-_Economic_Recovery_Actions.pdf Here is an extract which appears to be concerning: Establishing a Permitted Use Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics Page 1 of 3 A permitted use under the…

  • Asti Motel Site

    Asti Motel Site

    I live adjacent to a large “dead” site known as the Asti Motel. There is a new development proposal see here: https://planinc.org.au/news/current-campaigns-2/309-old-asti-site.html Some seven and a half years ago the site stalled, and Larrakeyah has been living with temporary fencing on three street fronts and a massive pit in the ground that holds water year-round. In…