PLan notes: We attended the Development Consent Authority (DCA) hearing friday 18/09/2026 and it turns out that the submission have missed that the buidling was four stories, not three stories as permitted by the local strategic plan. So rather that waste the local neighbours time they got to say thier words.

I again pointed out that Development Assessment Sevices (DAS) continue to reccomend that the DCA go ahead with non compliant applications. The chair of the DCA pointed aout that the DCA does not have to accept DAS reccomendations. But it brings to my mind natural justice if DAS continously reccomends delevopers get waivers to the planning scheme where is the objectivity that community should see in publicly funded institutions?

This is PLan’s sumbission

This is DAS reccomendations and all submissions:

In part: (note DAS see a 3 story building, who signed off on this report?): That, the Development Consent Authority should vary the requirements of clauses 5.2.4.4 (Layout of Car Parking Area), 5.2.5 (Loading Bays), 5.2.7 (Setbacks for Development Adjacent to Land in Zones LR), 5.3.7 (End of Trip Facilities in Zones C), 5.4.3 (Building Setbacks for Residential Buildings and Ancillary Structures), and 5.5.17 (Building Frontage in Commercial and Mixed Use Areas) of the Northern Territory Planning Scheme, and pursuant to section 53(a) of the Planning Act 1999, consent to develop Lot 359 (22) Progress Drive, Nightcliff, Town of Nightcliff for the purpose of Rooming accommodation (student accommodation) with 40 beds and office in a 3-storey building, subject to the following conditions: …