Category: Current Campaigns

  • Special Use Zones undermining our Planning Scheme

    The government too readily believes developers’ claims their development will be affordable & sustainable only on the basis they can have their own private set of rules for their development & can ignore the Planning Scheme. This is planning by the developers. They contradict the NT Planning Scheme and ignore community aspirations. Share this content

  • Waterfront – What a front!

    Waterfront – What a front!

    WATERFRONT ‘WHAT A FRONT’? 2020 Plan Pathway to a better Darwin CAMPAIGN: Waterfront Foreshore &                    Jervois Park Public Access DAY/DATE: Saturday 1st August 2020 TIME:          4:00pm – 5:00pm LOCATION: Goyder Park,                    Kitchener Drive, Darwin Do Darwin citizens and tourists have a right to access crown land including the Waterfront (Wharf 2) foreshore and…

  • Housing on the RAAF Base is being wasted

    Housing on the RAAF Base is being wasted

    There is a severe shortage of reasonably priced residential accommodation in Darwin, both for purchase and rental. This means young adults are delaying leaving home, unless their parents can help fund them, and some new arrivals may not be able to afford settling here. Parts of Darwin, and Greater Darwin are being subjected to a…

  • Community Comments  on the Greater Darwin Plan close at 4pm on Friday, 13 April, 2012

    Community Comments on the Greater Darwin Plan close at 4pm on Friday, 13 April, 2012

    YOU OPPORTUNITY TO SAY WHAT YOU DO AND DO NOT LIKE ABOUT THE PROPOSAL. On Friday 2 March, 2012, Chief Minister Henderson told TOPFM’s Daryl Manzie that there no further public consultation on the Greater Darwin PLan. He said it was because he said there had already been public consultation on it for a year.…

  • Development of Mylly Point

    Plans in place – money from the sale of Little Mindil was to finance this development – where is the money? – why the delay? Share this content

  • Defence of Darwin Museum

    Defence of Darwin Museum

    Many years  ago, PLan started  work to establish a public and professionally run  museum  recognising Northern Territory’s role in the defence of Australia.  Many saw this as  to document the history, to be a safe repository  of documents and memories from the families of those of at least four nations who joined in the defence,…

  • 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. Share this content

  • Area PLan and Social Infrastructure

    On Friday last, the Development Consent Authority(DCA) held a reporting hearing to advise Planning Minister Tollner on whether to apply the Darwin Inner Suburbs Area Plan. This is one of a series of plans being prepared currently by Gary Nairn’s NT Planning Commission. Area PLan’s guide future planning. They are not definitive, but they are…

  • 2024 04 The Heritage Listing of the Esplanade

    2024 04 The Heritage Listing of the Esplanade

    If you are concerned about the Heritage Listing of the Esplanade, sign the open letter here: Open letter to City of Darwin Download and print out the flyer with the open letter QR code here: 2024_05_The_Esplanade_is_most_important_QR.pdf It is a large green parkland laid out and established by George Goyder’s team of first surveyors in Darwin (Palmerston) in…