Councils are publicly named and shamed over the time they take to approve housing developments. Now it is the government’s turn.
Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.
Plans to dramatically expand this town west of Melbourne have sparked concerns from residents and environmentalists.
One opponent argued that the 16-storey block proposed for the languishing Balmain Leagues Club site would be “as workable in Rozelle as a snowflake is in hell”.
Racing NSW announced late on Friday that it had instructed the ATC to delay the vote on turning the racecourse into a “mini-city” of 25,000 homes until May 12.
In some neighbourhoods,properties have been selling at a loss,but it depends on their type.
The parcel of empty land will finally be sold off for homes,decades after the army moved out. The council says the move will do little to help the housing crisis.
It used to be a stopping place on the way to somewhere else,but this riverside town in Victoria’s south-west is growing so fast it’s threatening to swallow up surrounding farmland.
A war of words has erupted between Labor and the LNP after Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie rescinded approval for an affordable housing project in his electorate.
More than 220 people converged on the Boulevard Centre in Floreat on Thursday,where the WA Planning Commission held its meeting.