PLan – the Planning Action Network Inc

Category: Community Alert

  • Proposed Nightcliff Foreshore Cafe/Restaurant

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    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 CBD Masterplan

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    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.

  • Greater Darwin Plan Scuttles the Darwin Town Plan Values – A Densification Bulldozer

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    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…

  • Urgency to densify the suburbs of Darwin

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    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…

  • Home Ownership Risk

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    Your home ownership may be at risk in the future if you’re the owner of a strata titled unit.  See the Unit titles Scheme. S15 Termination by resolution A scheme may be terminated if: the body corporate of the scheme decides to terminate the scheme by a unanimous resolution; or all of the following conditions…

  • Transport Hubs

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    The CLP supports a transport hub on the corner of Smith & Daly Streets  – link to file attached called  State of the Union Takeouts CLP Nov 2011.pdf Find out what is happening with your roads here: http://www.nt.gov.au/transport/ http://www.nt.gov.au/infrastructure/

  • Strategic Planning Commission Proposal

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    A Strategic Planning Commission is proposed by the CLP.  It will be the creative thinker.  The DCA will become the enforcer – read more

  • Planning/Development Notices Alerts

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    Here is a handy website to stay on top of what is happening in your area – just put your address in and it will alert you to any planning or development notices within a 2 km radius of your address – http://www.planningalerts.org.au/

  • Arafura Harbour

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    In a lull in CBD development a proposal was made by Even Lynn of Gwelo Investments and Hans Vos to develop a huge canal estate from East Point to Coconut Grove. There was a huge organised public reaction against this, until the Chief Minister Paul Henderson announced that because the land involved is crown land…

  • Old Hospital Site

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    Very disappointingly, in proposing the redeveloping of this site, the NT Government mandated that 20% of its area must be used up by residential blocks to pay for the cost of the park. In a compromise response to local consultation, the NT Government will move these proposed residential apartments away from the Lambell Terrace (Larrakeyah)…