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Membership & Donations
Read more: Membership & DonationsPLan is an incorporated voluntary organization working towards a better living environment. Our Financial year is from 1 July to 30 June each year. Membership is only $25 per year. 2025 year now open – renew or join now and receive membership to the middle of year 2026. Donations are always welcome if you…
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2024 05 Esplanade Statement of Heritage Value
Read more: 2024 05 Esplanade Statement of Heritage ValueUpdate 18/12/2024 Department of Lands, Planning and Environment Heritage Council speaks to the Supreme Court decision on the Darwin Esplanade 17 December 2024 Background On 3 December 2021 the Heritage Council accepted a nomination from a member of the public for the Darwin Esplanade to be a protected heritage place under the Heritage Act 2011.…
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2024 07 Strategic Directions Planning Policy
Read more: 2024 07 Strategic Directions Planning PolicyThis submission closes 31 July 2024. https://haveyoursay.nt.gov.au/strategic-directions-planning-policy At this stage we have yet to engage with this process, please return to this web site in the future. StrategicDirections download the pdf.
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Lee Point Submission October 2018
Read more: Lee Point Submission October 2018Lee Point Master-Planned Urban Development [2CRU (West) & Muirhead North (East), being Defence Housing Australia proposed development. Submission by PLan: the Planning Action Network. 5.10.2018Comments were invited by DIPL when a variation amending text was submitted by DHA in September, 2018. A. BACKGROUND TO THESE COMMENTS – NEED FOR PRIOR CONSULTATION WITH COMMUNITY. 1. In…
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Parliament House Car Park
Read more: Parliament House Car ParkNORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIAPlanning Act – sections 54 and 55DEVELOPMENT PERMITDP18/0131DESCRIPTION OF LAND THE SUBJECT OF THE PERMITLot 03940Town of Darwin25 MITCHELL ST, DARWIN CITYAPPROVED PURPOSETo use and develop the land for the purpose of a 3 – storey underground carpark (450 spaces), inaccordance with the attached schedule of conditions and the endorsed plans.VARIATIONS GRANTEDNil.BASE…
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Post Office Car Park – a tale of three trees
Read more: Post Office Car Park – a tale of three treesHere is the baby Boab tree dated 1911, and the other school building across Wood Street on the PO Carpark site. Supplied by Judy Boland. The trees near by may be Milkwoods.
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Lee Point Clearing!
Read more: Lee Point Clearing!Dear Editor Why does bushland have to be cleared when the Property Council of the NT’s ‘accurate’ assessment of vacant residential land found ‘more than 5,300 blocks’ likely to be available (NT News September 19, 2018)? 500 of these residential lots will be created when the bush opposite Lee Point Resort is cleared by…
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PLan’s NOTES ON THE NTG’s PROPOSED ‘PLANNING REFORM
Read more: PLan’s NOTES ON THE NTG’s PROPOSED ‘PLANNING REFORMTO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT, PLan’s NOTES ON THE NTG’s PROPOSED ‘PLANNING REFORM’. Please find in the attached pdf, notes on the above documents prepared by PLan: the Planning Action Network, Inc. PLan_NOTES_ON_THE_NTG-last.pdf TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT, PLan’s NOTES ON THE NTG’sPROPOSED ‘PLANNING REFORM’The Government says it wants better planning outcomes.This is PLan’s…
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People in parks are more positive
Read more: People in parks are more positivehttps://theconversation.com/tweet-all-about-it-people-in-parks-feel-more-positive-95290 People in parks are more positive, and around areas like major transport hubs more negative, according to analysis of 2.2 million tweets in Melbourne.
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Developing the North: Supporting Jobs through the Contemporary Management of Pastoral Land
Read more: Developing the North: Supporting Jobs through the Contemporary Management of Pastoral LandDeveloping the North: Supporting Jobs through the Contemporary Management of Pastoral Land 15 August 2018 Today, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is debating proposed amendments to the Pastoral Land Legislation Amendment Bill 2017, in a bid to ensure the contemporary management of pastoral estates. Subleasing arrangement were introduced as part of the amendments in October…
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fracking map
Read more: fracking mapHi Everyone, A new fracking map is now available online and it is shocking! The map, dated July 2018, shows almost all of the NT covered in applications (light purple) and granted permits (dark purple), with very few reserved areas (orange, no go areas). See attached and below. https://core.nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/378526/onshore-petroleum-titles-developments.pdf
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CDU Population Report
Read more: CDU Population ReportDEPARTMENT OFTHE CHIEF MINISTER Population Research ReportSummary Synthesising Northern Territory PopulationResearch: A report to the Northern TerritoryDepartment of the Chief Minister A report on twelve years of population research, the causes andconsequences of population change in the Territory, and evidencebased policy options to address these changes Dr Andrew Taylor & Professor Dean CarsonNorthern InstituteCharles Darwin…
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Dual Occupancy Correspondence
Read more: Dual Occupancy CorrespondenceDual Occupancy Correspondence This email is in two sections, dealing with two separate issues, and lots. (See advert below). Section A We have now had a chance to see the full text of the EDP advertisement which we were apparently only sent part of earlier. At that time, we naturally assumed it was an amended…