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  • Darwin CBD – Building Permit System

    Question: Darwin CBD – Building Permit SystemQuestion Date: 10/06/2009Member: Ms WALKERTo: 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, I thank the…

  • Development Notice of a Crematorium

    On the corner of Amy Johnson Avenue and McMillans Road A furnace is to be built to cremate human remains at the above address with provision for a second cremator at a later date. If your are concerned about having a cremator in our suburb or next door to our backyards, clubs and the Marrara…

  • CBD Height and density

    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…

  • From the Deckchair Cinema

    From the Deckchair Cinema

    Your membership expires: 07/05/2020 View this email in your browser Unsubscribe Important Members Announcement The future of Deckchair Cinema is under threat by a proposed development Image showing the proposed lot for the development highlighted in red and the Deckchair Cinema highlighted in green, adapted from https://nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html Dear Susanne,I am writing to inform you that Deckchair Cinema, one of…

  • Old Asti Motel Site – September 2023

    The Old Asti Motel site is again before the Development Consent Authority We need your support in our campaign for a decent community outcome with this contentious development. On this web page you can make a donation, sign up for our newsletter, read the submission and find our what is happening in the campaign. Donations…

  • Visit this groundbreaking design exhibition while you can!

    Weddell Tropical Housing Design Competition and Weddell New-Town Urban Design Competition – Designs on Public Exhibition at the Art Gallery in the CDU Chancellery Building, each day 10am-3pm, 29 November-16 December, 2011 (The Chancellery is a new building off the lower road following the canal on the CDU campus). On 28 November, 2011 the winners…

  • PLan’s Submission on Lot 4128(121 Amy Johnson Drive D/A Crematorium

    Dear Friends, This may be of interest to you in one way or another Submission on Lot 4128 121 Amy Johnson Drive D/A Crematorium From: Margaret Clinch Date: 31 January 2009 2:57:29 AM To: das.dpi@nt.gov.au Subject: Submission on Lot 4128(121 Amy Johnson Drive D/A Crematorium PLan: the Planning Action Network, Inc PO Box 2513, Darwin,…

  • The Unfinished Saga of Little Mindil

    The Unfinished Saga of Little Mindil

    We remain actively concerned about the future development of Little Mindil which the public expects to remain largely open space. When this lot was ‘won’ by Sky City Casino, through the competitive NT Government ‘Expression of Interest’ process, the public were told that the Casino’s bid was chosen because the land would be used for…

  • Little Mindil, let’s be open about Open Space

    Previous Plan articles on Little Mindil Little Mindil beachfront site on the market NOTE: there is a revised movie that attempts to reflect the atcual boundary of what we know as Little Mindil. here is the new movie on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4C3fFWedxA&feature=share Little Mindil gifted to the Casino? 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…