Category: Community Alert

Attachment below is a copy of a Letter to the Leader of the Opposition. This amendment gives the NT Planning Commission power over the NT Planning Scheme, and reduces the public and local government’s right to comment on proposed changes. Planning Act Amendment 2016 Below is Plan’s media release after the bill was passed. This…

The Gardens is a small suburb almost hidden between the Botanic Gardens and the Stuart Highway. A tight nit community has chosen to live here, supposedly out of harms way. They are now literally campaigning to save their community from destruction by high rise development. On Saturday 30 August, about 100 of them rallied close…

The new Australian Fighter Aircraft will be the F35A LIGHTNING II.  Details of the Environmental Impact Statement(EIS), other relevant information, and comments will be at www.f35evolution.com.au. Pitch Black Air Exercises 2014 There will be aircraft noise during  PITCH BLACK quite separately.  This has a major disrupting effect on parts of Darwin, which  affected people may…

The NT Planning Commission now has on exhibition a copy of the  Draft Darwin Regional Land Use. This is the next stage on from the Towards a Darwin Regional land Use PLan, and is supposed to reflect the consultation on that document. The plan is the big picture future plan. The Commissioner Gary Nairn has…

The Northern Territory Government, via the NT PLanning Commission, has at last put together a draft proposal about the OLD HOSPITAL SITE/MYILLY POINT/FLAGSTAFF PARK/KAHLIN. Unfortunately it proposes that over 60% of the land would be taken up by residential development  ‘to pay for’ making green open space available.  Not really appropriate when it is all…

Consultation continues on the CBD Masterplan project to be finalised by the end of 2013. See further information  contained in  attached pdf, or on the City of Darwin website, participate, and make a submission. Darwin CBD Master Plan Update Share this content

After a long delay, City of Darwin finally announced its consultation on the idea of building a Cafe/Restaurant on the Nightcliff Foreshore near the Nightcliff Swimming pool. Lord Mayor Katrina Fong Lim made it quite clear on ABC TV News (25.3.2013) that those who are totally against any such building here on the foreshore headland,…

Palmerston City Council is exhibiting a draft Masterplan for their CBD for comment and consultation. The coloured draft masterplan brochure is NOW on display at www.palmerston.nt.gov.au The link is on the main website page, and all pages can be opened and viewed. Details are given about the consultation process. Share this content

On the morning of 1 March, 2012, Chief Minister Paul Henderson announced his Greater Darwin PLan for our beautiful tropical city by one of the best natural harbours in the world. It introduces chaos, and leaves residents living in uncertainty. Largely as a result of having attracted INPEX LNG Plant here, the Northern Territory Government…

In unseemly urgency to densify the suburbs of Darwin, the Northern Territory Government wants to undermine rules of the Northern Territory Planning Scheme (NTPS)-again. This time the catchword is ‘DUAL OCCUPANCY’ The idea is to amend the rules so t that the Development Consent Authority (DCA) could consent to two houses on any single lot…