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Aquaculture, working against domestic violence and other Redland City Council news

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Draft City Plan 2015 Consultation about the Council’s proposed new planning scheme has been underway for two weeks. An issue of concern to many people and groups in the community is Council’s plan to rezone many small parks and conservation areas for residential development, discussed in this Redlands2030 report. City Plan information sessions this week:

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Questions about ‘operational’ role of Redland City Council’s Development reference group

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It’s 10 months since Redlands2030 started to investigate the Redland City Council’s Development Industry Reference Group. We’ve uncovered a tale of regular closed door meetings between senior council planners and major developers so secret not even the names of those present were ever to be publicly released. The conversations were just as secret until Council

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Political donations and conflicts of interest in Redland City Council

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Are Redland City councillors always acting in the public interest? They constantly make decisions which can greatly benefit individuals and business. Contracts worth millions of dollars are at stake. Favorable planning and approval decisions can make landowners in the ‘right’ area enormously wealthy, with the potential to make property more valuable overnight. Councillors must exercise

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Eight storey hotel approval questioned by residents

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Where can you get approval for an eight story building in a five storey zone? Redland City Council recently approved such an application leaving many to wonder why the City bothers to have a planning scheme. It seems  as if this is a City where developers are encouraged to do mostly whatever they want to.

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Redland City PlanningAlerts now available

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Lots of developments in Redland City are approved for construction without publicity. Residents can be surprised when heavy earthmoving machinery rumbles into their street at 6:00 am to start work on a new development. Under the current Redland City planning scheme, many developments are “Code Assessable” which means that the public is not made aware

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Letters about koalas, Toondah Harbour and new apartment blocks in Capalaba

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This week’s community comments deal with the sad state of koala politics, missed economic opportunities for the new Toondah Harbour development to connect to the Cleveland CBD and the predicted traffic chaos on narrow Capalaba streets when six 6-storey towers are built. Koala politics – why people have no confidence in pollies One has to

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The Coalition’s NBN – a huge waste of money

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Despite his earlier fervent opposition and having voted very strongly against the National Broadband Network (NBN) under Labor, in recent times Federal Member for Bowman, Andrew Laming, has become something of an NBN evangelist, wildly spruiking the Coalition’s ‘Fast, Affordable, Sooner’ claims. I count no less than ten articles in local press over the past

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