Development
Proposal: MULTIDWELLING-DEMOLITION-CONSOLIDATION- LEASE VARIATION – 9 UNITS. Proposed demolition of two houses; consolidation of the two blocks; lease variation and construction of nine two-storey terrace style townhouses with basement parking. Period for representations closes: 08/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
Proposal: MULTI DWELLING-DEMOLITION-2 NEW DWELLINGS. Demolition of existing single storey dwelling; Proposed construction of two (2) new dwellings. Period for representations closes: 07/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
Proposal: LEASE VARIATION. Please see Development Application for full details. Period for representations closes: 14/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
Proposal: DUAL OCCUPANCY- Proposed construction of two (2) new standalone residences and associated driveway and landscape works. LEASE VARIATION to permit Unit Title. Period for representations closes: 15/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
Proposal: LEASE VARIATION- Please see application form for further details. Period for representations closes: 07/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
Proposal: LEASE VARIATION – Please see application form for detail of the lease variation. Period for representations closes: 14/10/2014 Click here to view the plans
By Mark Sawa, Canberra Chronicl Seven more sites have been identified as part of a broad public housing strategy stretching across several parts of the ACT. Representatives from the Community Services Directorate and the Economic Development Directorate gave presentations on the Draft Omnibus Territory Plan Variation to both the Belconnen Community Council and the North Canberra Community Council last week. The variation groups 17 individual sites together across Canberra’s north and south.
When Canberra gets its equivalent of an Independent Commission Against Corruption, almost the last of the state and territorial government systems to do so, the body should be as focused on exposing incompetence, mismanagement and failure to secure the public interest as it is on corruption. A good place to start would be investigating the public benefit from 25 years of political and administrative dealings between ACT politicians and officials, and the top levels of the four major football codes. As a priority, this could compete against mismanagement and corruption of the functions of ACT planning, and the problems created for …
The government’s treatment of the steady stream of clubs wanting to change their concessional leases to allow development has drawn criticism from the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which accuses authorities of not properly considering the public interest. The planning minister is supposed to ensure the public interest is protected when community groups change their leases, but the tribunal said in a July judgment that all 13 leases “deconcessionalised” since late 2010 had been approved. None had been rejected in the public interest, and planning authorities appeared to have “adopted a formulaic approach, since all the minister’s reasons were couched …
