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  • 2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

    2012 Tropical Garden Spectacular

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    Dear PLan Members, Supporters and Contacts, This is to remind you that the Tropical Garden Spectacular is on again this Saturday and Sunday, 2nd and 3rd June, 2012. It will be full of exhibits, competitions, innovations, and information presentations on the theme of sustainability, in the delightful atmosphere of Darwin’s George Brown Botanic Gardens. Too…

  • Anendo Report on Coastal Communities

    Anendo Report on Coastal Communities

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    Submission on the Inquiry into climate change and environmental impacts on coastal communities. Anendo-and-Coastal-Communities.pdf

  • Amenity Defined

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    PLan was part of the movement to have amenity defined. We would have preferred that the definition did not specify locality or building and continue to request its removal from the definition. Planning Act Section 3 Interpretation amenity, in relation to a locality or building, means any quality, condition or factor that makes or contributes…

  • Almost loss of Alawa School Oval

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    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

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    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.

  • CBD Height and density

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    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…

  • ATTENTION! IMPORTANT PROPOSED LEGISLATION AMENDMENT- PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS AND PROPERTY

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    Changes are proposed under the NT Titles Legislation. Unit title owners should check the NT Department of Attorney General and Justice website. (Click at right in list, under Issues and Consultations for background paper – Cancellation of Unit Plans and schemes). Cut off date for comments is now extended.  The industry has made its comments.…

  • Greater Darwin PLan

    Greater Darwin PLan

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    This is a copy of the submission from PLan on the NT Goverrment’ s Proposed Greater Darwin Plan. The community of Greater Darwin should feel very concerned about the impact of certain aspects of the proposed plan upon the lives of themselves and their families.The Greater Darwin Plan – PLan’s Comments 2012We thank all those…

  • Community Comments on the Greater Darwin PLan close at 4pm on 30 March, 2012

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    The official document which would need approval to implement the Greater Darwin Plan is PA2012-0019_GDP.pdf When you look at it you will see that it is a document to amend the Northern Territory Scheme (NTPS). PLan has been working in planning for 15 years. The following points reflect our opion on the proposed amendment based…

  • Darwin CBD – Building Permit System

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    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…