The plan for Doncaster Hill to become a self-sustaining village with wind turbines and solar panels on apartment buildings could have increased the purchase price of apartments by as much as ten per cent with a zero impact on global warming had Manningham Council not scrapped the plan. Lord Monckton speedometer shows a 15 years […]
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DRIVEWAY CROSS FALL MUST MATCH ROAD SLOPE
Manningham Council have approved this roller coaster footpath in the front of the five storey apartment development at 8-10 Hepburn Road, Doncaster despite objections from residents. “Angela”, who lives close to the building, contacted Councillor Dot Haynes who declared that if the footpath did not to conform to regulations it would have […]
COUNCILLOR ELECTION SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER
Candidate information sessions at 7 pm in Council Chambers On the 17th of August and the 12th & 14th of September. Manningham Council elections will be held on the 22nd of October 2016. To be eligible a candidate must be listed on council voters role. Postal Election Candidate Handbook from […]
SEVEN ELEVEN STORE DELAYED HARDWARE GIANT
The construction of the Bunnings store had been stymied as a result of the proponent being unable to negotiate the termination of a lease agreement with Seven Eleven which is due to expire in 2022. In addition Bunnings were unable to find a joint venture partner to complete the development. As a result the building […]
INDEPENDENT EXCLUSIONARY FOCUSED STRATEGY
From BuzzPhrases to BuzzPhraser TM Doc Searls’ Buzz Phraser is an hilarious tool that lets you produce and share Mad Libs type phrases that come scarily close to sounding like all that gross overblown bumph and bafflegab written by bureaucrats. The original BuzzPhraser was created in 1992 as a spreadsheet, then a HyperCard stack; and […]
BACKLASH RELEASES A RESIDENTS BILL OF RIGHTS
RESIDENTS’ BILL OF RIGHTS (RBR) Residents’ groups are being overwhelmed by the ever increasing planning issues and government strategies that keep us busy reacting instead of us concentrating upon positive changes to maintain our liveable status. Meanwhile our residential areas are being plundered by developers only intent on exploiting every construction opportunity, regardless of the impact […]
FORMER COUNCIL PLANNER DROPS BOMB ON DDO8
John Joyner, highly regarded ex senior planning officer at Manningham council, now the principal of Melbourne Planning Outcomes (MPO), has been engaged as the planning consultant for Anne Wang c/-Jiakun Li (designer), the applicant for a three storey development at 51-53 Beverley Street, East Doncaster, to assist at a VCAT hearing in September this year. […]
DONCASTER HIGHEST BUILDING WELL ADVANCED
The “Magnolia” a 15 storey apartment tower under construction in Hepburn Road, corner of Short Street will be the highest building in Doncaster when completed later this year. The maximum height of the project is proposed at 46.1 metres above the natural ground level to the highest point. This proposal 3D Views 20hepburn on Doncaster Hill was […]
AUSSIE GROUP TO BUILD MITCHELL ST PROPOSAL
CBRE the sellimg agents have confirmed that Pace Development Group have purchased the land at Mitchell St in the Jackson Court Activity Centre for over $13 Million, approx $3,550 per sqm The sale to Pace Development Goup, its Managing Director Shane Wilkinson pictured left, comes more than 12 months after the Manningham Leader had reported […]
COUNCIL EXEC WAGES ROSE 1O.8% IN TWO YEARS
The total wage bill for Manningham CEO and four executives had increased by $119,796, from $1,106,771 at June 2013 to $1,226,567 effective as at the 30th of June 2015. This was equal to an increase on total wages of nearly 11% in the space of two years! A reliable source within Council expects this year’s […]