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The Draft Planning and Design Code is broken. If and when it is repaired it will be re-released. This Media Release was prepared by Warren Jones, Convenor, Protect out Heritage Alliance.  

The New Planning and Design Code.....it’s quite simple! Below is a paragraph in a Letter to The Islander from a resident of KI.   He was encouraged to look at the Draft Code by the...

  A large crowd attended a rally on the Parliament steps on Thursday to protest the intrusion into KI’s Flinders Chase National Park of the Australian Walking Company’s access and accomodation infrastructure.  Speakers were...

  Here is the hard copy of the Planning and Design Code released on Friday 4th October.  Quite apart from it being internally inconsistent with a parallel electronic version, incomplete, confusing , inaccessible and...

  The preliminary summary of the new Planning and Design Code constructed by the State Planning Commission (SPC) raises two serious issues. The 3000 page planning blueprint for the Code purports to replace 23,000...

HYPOCRISY In a recent Discussion Paper, the State Planning Commission (SPC) professes to promote urban infill for new development accompanied by trees, greening and open space.However on Saturday 21st September, at a corner block...

This two storey (or is it three) monstrosity comprises a seven Unit development squeezed onto what was one residential block.  The building goes right to the  edge of the footpaths with no trees, no...