Scheme may be best selling
CD. Upload Nov 25, 2004:
Copies of the draft District Planning Scheme may be available on
CD next week.
Council
fumes over government changes to Scheme (Upload
Nov 25, 2004): The Minister for Planning made two major changes
to the draft District Planning Scheme before she agreed to release
it for public comment, and the shire council is fuming about it.
Campus
shows off its art (Upload Nov 23, 2004):The
Art courses at the new Margaret River Education Campus
have until now been something of a well-kept secret.
THINKING
ALLOWED:
Erl Happ on the
'tragedy' of a ban on rural subdivision. Upload
November 22, 2004
IDO exempts some
development from approvals Uploaded
November 19, 2004): Shire Planning staff have had life
made easier for them with the approval on Tuesday of an Interim
Development Order that exempts some forms of development
from planning approval.
Music
forum formed to strut acoustic talents (Upload
Nov 19, 2004): A new forum has been developed on which
local musicians can strut their acoustic talents.
Draft
District Planning Scheme goes out for comment.
Upload Nov 17, 2004: The draft District Planning
Scheme has been approved by the Minister for Planning to
be released for public comment.
Total
ban on rural subdivision proposed (Upload Nov
17, 2004) A proposed new policy that virtually puts an end
to rural subdivision throughout the shire gives a keyhole view
into the as yet confidential draft District Planning Scheme.
One issue delays District Planning
Scheme (Upload
November 11, 2004):The shire is hoping that the Minister for Planning
will approve the long-awaited District Planning Scheme for public
comment tomorrow.
Planning
queue shrinks (Upload November 11, 2004): The queue
to have planning applications processed by the shire has been dramatically
reduced in the past two months.
New
policy on signage released for comment: Upload
Oct 28, 2004. A new policy to control directional and advertising
signs will be released by the shire council for a two-month
public consultation.
A
letter responding to the 'powerline squawkers: Uploaded
Oct 28, 2004.
Noise
fears limit use of airstrip: The Margaret River
aerodrome management plan was adopted by the shire council
last night thus closing the door on the building of private
hangars.
New
president takes aim at 'disgrunted developers' :
New shire president Jamie McCall came out swinging within
minutes of being elected at last night’s full council
meeting.
No restaurant
a Gnarabup Cafe site: A last ditch attempt
to build a restaurant on the café Gnarabup site
rather than the shire council’s
preferred kiosk has failed.
Stress
claims the shire president: Nick
Dornan is no longer the shire president.
We may join the sea change lobby (Upload
Oct 22, 2004): The shire is likely to next week
officially join the national sea change taskforce that has
been formed to assist towns and regions affected by
the phenomenon.
Dornan
to stand to test strategies (Upload Oct 21,
2004): Shire President Nick Dornan says that
Sunday’s
electors meeting left him no choice but to again
stand for election in May next year.
Skippy the
Moet drinking bush kangaroo. This
is not one of our stories, but it is well worth a
read.
A pity
it has come to this: Thoughts on the electors
meeting (Upload oct 19, 2004)
THINKING ALLOWED: $346
to be liked by the seven blokes (Upload
Oct 13, 2004). Local accountant Ken Hunt writes
as a curtain raiser to Sunday's electors meeting.
Tennis
club fire boy to front the members (Upload
Oct 11, 2004): The boy whose 16th birthday
celebrations included setting alight the
Margaret River tennis club must face the
members to ‘cut
a deal’ about recompense for his share
of the $42,000 damages bill.
Merribrook
opens its gardens for charity (Upload
October 8, 2004): The public
is invited to tour Merribrook as part of Australia’s
Open Garden Scheme on November 13 and 14.
Shire
CEO splits the planning department (Upload Oct
7, 2004): The embattled Shire of Augusta-Margaret
River planning directorate has been split in two.
Local group
wants to build Cafe Gnarabup (Upload Oct 6, 2004)
A group of local ratepayers has offered
to fund the construction of a kiosk and café at
Gnarabup and save the Shire Council $150,000.
$4million brewery opens amid an ocean of wine (Upload
Sept 30, 2004): Surrounded by an
ocean of wine, a beer brewery that opened its
doors in Margaret River today is destined to become
one of the district’s
major attractions.
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