2: PLANNING DIRECTORY

Last Updated 24/12/11

 

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 Amendments (Planning Scheme)

    
     

Amendment C8  (Residential & Industrial Land)

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Amendment C21  & C48 (Rural Land)

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2000 Missing Lots on Planning Scheme Maps

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Amendment C26 (Wildfire Mgt Overlay)

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Amendment C33 (Heritage)

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Amendment C38 (Gisborne DPO)

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Amendment C39 (Towns' DPO & various)

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Amendment C40 (Nth Woodend Depot)

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Amendment C45  (Braemar & 1000 Lots, Golf Course Hill Woodend)

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Braemar: A Trojan Horse

    

Amendment C47 (Mixed Use W'end & various)

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Amendment C49 (Riddells Creek)

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Amendment C52 (Macedon House)

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Amendment C55 (Delete permit & referral req.)

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Amendment C59 (Gisborne ODP)  now Amendment C65

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Amendment C62 (MSS Review - removes Statement of Planning Policy No 8 from MRSC scheme)

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Hello, Hello, Hello - Where Did Statement Of Planning Policy No. 8 Go?

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Amendment C64 (MRSC Gaming Policy)

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Amendment C72  (Kyneton Racecourse Masterplan - Exhibited)

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Amendment C76 (Heritage)

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Amendment C78 (Heritage)

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Amendment C84 (MSS & LPP 'Update' and MR Settlement Strategy)

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Accountability & Corruption In Planning

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Planning Goes Backward As Council Abandons Planning Committee Meetings

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Environment Defenders' Office

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Heritage

    

Heritage And Urban Design Survey - Have Your Say 

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Macedon Ranges

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Avenues of Honour & Woodend Avenue

    

VicRoads: Bluestone Cottage

    

Woodend

    

Council's Draft Heritage Review (Stage One)

    
     

State (& Federal)

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Review Of State Heritage Planning Controls

    

Fresh Calls And Pressure For Heritage Planning Overhaul In Victoria

    

Federal

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National Heritage Crisis - An Urgent Call For Assistance

    

Federal Productivity Commission

    
     

National Trust

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Houses in Rural Zones

    
     

Dwelling Applications & Approvals In Rural Zones

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VCAT Sets Bar High For Houses In Water Catchments With "Rozen Decision":  That's A "Well Done"

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VCAT approves a 4 house application (Rozen case)

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VCAT Overturns C48 Rural Land Policies (Puican case)

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Council Rural Dwellings and Subdivision Policy

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Push For Houses On All Rural Lots / "Keatings' Meeting"

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"Fair Go" Farmers Show Their Hand

    

Real Estate Agencies' Revival Meeting Rolls Into Kyneton 30 May

    
     

Planning Applications

    
     

Animals

    

Council "Yes" To Dogs In Romsey Residential Zone Disintegrates Into VCAT "No"

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Bendigo Bank

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Cobaw Live Bird Hunting Ranch (Rural)

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Freeway Service Centres, Gisborne South (Rural)

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Gisborne Call Centre (AAMI)

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Gisborne AAMI Call Centre:  FOI Reveals State Govt's Pivotal Role In 'Making It Happen'

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Macedon Lodge  (Lloyd Williams)

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Resorts

    

Macedon 'Something' Resort (Lawson Road) (Rural)

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Restaurants

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Echoes Of AAMI Call Centre Fiasco As Council Falls Over Maccas In Gisborne

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"Say No 2 Maccas"

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Retirement Villages

    

5 Storey, Gisborne

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Macedon House, Gisborne (Rural)

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Macedon House (People First) Proposal In Gisborne Raises Its Ugly Head Again

    

Floodplain, Mt. Macedon Road, Woodend (Rural)

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School

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Tye Estate (Rural): Candlebark School

    

Sheds

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Signs

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Subdivisions

    

Gisborne

    

1005 lots & DP, Brooking Rd, Gisborne

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Helensville, Gisborne

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Macedon Ranges Council Is Giving Away Free Lots!!!

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Riddells Creek

    

181 lot, Sutherlands Rd,. Riddells Creek

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Romsey

    

4 lot Gordon Cres Romsey

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Woodend

    

Braemar Comes To Its Senses And Divorces Itself From Villawood

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Minister For Planning Says State Government Won't "Micro-Manage" Davies Hill/Villawood Proposal

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Davies Hill Goes Down As Council (And The Weather) Rains On Villawood's Parade

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1000 lot Subdivision/ Braemar, Golf Course Hill, Woodend (Rural)

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Braemar: A Trojan Horse

    

Who is behind Golf Course Hill?

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Supermarkets

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Telecommunication Facilities

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Mt. Gisborne Telstra tower

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Units

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20 Two Storey Units On A Floodplain In Woodend - Almost 1,000 Sign Petition Saying 'No'

    
     

Unlawful Riding School, Kyneton

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Planning Backlash

    
     

Planning Backlash: Are you looking at www.marvellousmelbourne.org?  

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Planning Backlash Activities

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Planning Backlash Affiliates Successful At 2008 Council Elections

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Planning: Council

    
     
     

Guidelines

    

Council's Industrial Design G'lines Out For Public Comment Until 7 January

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Outline Development Plans (ODP)

    

Gisborne

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Kyneton

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Riddells Creek

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Romsey

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Overlays

    

Development Plan Overlay (DPO)

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Wildfire Management Overlay (WMO)

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Planning Permit Activity

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Permit Register: Greenlight

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Policies / Strategies

    

Cash-In-Lieu of Parking Policy

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Housing Strategy

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Residential Subdivision Guidelines (Council)

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Rural Dwellings and Subdivision Policy

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Rural Living Strategy - Chance to Comment

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Small Towns Strategy

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Urban Design Framework

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Population

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Settlement Strategy

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Villawood Amendment  Comes Before Council 28 September

   

MR Settlement Strategy Gets The Nod But Only From 6 Of 9 Councillors 

   

When's A Public Meeting Not A Public Meeting?  When It's In Macedon Ranges Shire...

 

  

Community Meeting On Settlement Strategy, 7.30pm 13 July, Woodend: BE THERE

    

Woodend Betrayed By Changes To Settlement Strategy

   

Council's Settlement Strategy: Submissions Extended Until End Of January 2011

   

Macedon Ranges' Settlement Strategy Out For Consultation Until December 17th

   

MR Settlement Strategy: Is Macedon Ranges Making The Decisions, Or The State Government?

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Suburbanization

    

'Basic' Clarkefield: Push For Ad Hoc New Town By Cr. Geoff Neil Underscores Potential For Suburban Future

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Planning - Federal Government    

Change And Continuity In Peri Urban Australia

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Planning In Other Places

    
     

Colac Otway Councillors Sacked

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Planning in NSW

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Port Campbell  

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Glenelg Shire Planning Powers Suspended

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Planning: State

    
     

State Government Finalizes New Rules For Wind Energy Facilities

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New Regulations For Bushfire Prone Areas In Force From 8 September 2011

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MRRA Meets With Minister For Planning, Matthew Guy, June 22

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State Government Sets Up Peri Urban Planning Unit Within Department

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DPCD Orders The 'MACEDON RANGES POLICY' Removed From Our Planning Scheme

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'Committee For Melbourne' Thinks Macedon Ranges Is The Place For A Suburb

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DPCD Shows Why The 'Median' House Price Depends On Who You Listen To

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Aged Care

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Amendments - State

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Auditor-General

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Building

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Call In Powers - Ministerial

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Car Parking

    

Coastal

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Committee For Melbourne

    

Contamination/Contaminated Land

    

Cutting Red Tape

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"Moving Forward": Cash for Regional Planning

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DACs [Development Assessment Committees]

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Department Notices

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Design (see Urban Design)

    

Energy

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Environmental Regulations, review of [VCEC]

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Exemptions

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Fire

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State Govt Introduces Sweeping Changes To Bushfire Planning Provisions In Amendment VC83

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Future Farming - Rural Farming Group

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Height Controls

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Helicopter Landing Sites

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Industrial

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Interventions

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Land & Biodiversity in a time of climate change

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Legislation

    

Environmental Effects Act

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Planning & Environment Act Review 2009

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Transport

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Other

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Liquor

    

VC79 Amendment Changes State Planning Rules For Liquor Outlets

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Loss of Rights & Powers

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Federal Funding Seems A Welcome Excuse For Victorian Government To Dismantle Proper And Orderly Planning

    

State Government Tries To Gag Planning Objections By Making People Pay To Object

    

Melbourne 2030

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Planning Fees

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Planning System Review, 2011

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State Government Calls For Input On Review Of Victorian Planning System

    

Policy Reviews

    

Retail Policy

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Practice Notes

    

Regional Strategic Plans

    

State Govt's Regional Strategic Plan Puts Growth Agenda In Place For Macedon Ranges: Council Endorses Plan Without Community Consultation

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ResCode

    

Council Votes To Call On The Minister For Planning To Introduce A RURAL ResCode

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Clause 56 Review

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Residential Zones

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Rural Residential

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Rural Zones

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Shaping Victoria

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State Planning Policy Framework [SPPF]

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Structure Plans

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Subdivisions

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Tree Pruning (Street Trees)

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Urban Design

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Urban Growth Boundary

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Victorian Planning History Information Now Available

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Victoria Planning Provisions (VPPs)

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Water Catchments

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Pokies (Gambling/Gaming)

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Gisborne

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Population

    
     

ABS Census

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Victoria In Future [VIF] Population Projections

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Population

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Kelvin Thompson Asks Is Melbourne @ 5 Million A Better City Than Melbourne @ 4 Million?

    

Protectors Of Public Lands Victoria Inc Revs Up On Over-Population

    

Bob Carr Joins Kelvin Thomson In Speaking Out Against Over-Population

    
     

Sustainable Population Australia [SPA] - latest newsletter

    
     

What Growth Really Means (22/5/10):  Want to know what 'growth' means - really means?  Check out "Arithmetic, Population and Energy" (aka The Most Important Video You Will Ever See) by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett.  The theme is:  "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race is Our Inability To Understand The Exponential Function".  Dr. Bartlett demonstrates that knowing how to do arithmetic can change how we see everything. 

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Growth Rates

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2006 Census Data

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Growth Agenda

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Public Land

    
     

State

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Council

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School Plantation, Gisborne

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VCAT

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Major Cases List

    

"Major" Cases To Again Be Fast-Tracked At VCAT

    

VCAT "Major Cases List" For Fast-Tracking Development Hearings Dropped

       
     

Latest VCAT Red Dot Decisions

    
     

VCAT Awards $4,500 Costs Against Macedon Ranges Council

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Individual Decisions

    

Cobaw Live Bird Hunting Ranch (Rural)

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VCAT Says No To Macedon Lodge: It's Prohibited

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Gisborne Call Centre

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Puican :  Rural Land Policies Don't Apply (Amendment C48)

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Signs At Kyneton

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181 Lot Subdivision, Riddells Creek

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4 Lot Subdivision, Romsey

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1005 Lot Subdivision/DP, Gisborne

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2005 Decisions

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