Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Bowen names sites for Gippsland’s offshore wind farms

THE first feasibility study licences have been announced for six potential offshore wind farms in Gippsland and three of them could be located within 10km off the beach near Woodside, Seaspray and Golden Beach near Yarram. And despite the assurances...

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How these Wonthaggi homes have been overlayed with uncertainty

THE Bass Coast Shire Council is being forced to play catch-up after the owners of new blocks of land in several Wonthaggi housing estates, many with new homes already built and occupied, realised they are now subject to a costly and potentially...

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List of blocks affected by ‘contamination’ overlay

NEITHER land developers, the Bass Coast Shire Council nor the Victorian Planning Authority could have been in any doubt about which blocks of land in Wonthaggi had an Environmental Audit Overlay (EAO) added to their titles when Amendment C152basc...

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Wonthaggi overlay scandal: The onus is on you, says shire

IN A crushing blow for the hundreds of new homeowners and building block owners in Wonthaggi’s recently gazetted North East housing development precinct, the Bass Coast Shire Council has announced that it is “unable to alter the requirements of...