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THE developer wanting to build a residential development next to a former Aboriginal mission site and cemetery has applied to have its approval period for the project extended.
AV Jennings has applied to Ipswich City Council to extend the currency periods which were due to expire at the end of this year for approvals already granted for its project site at Deebing Heights.
The developer is seeking to extend approvals granted in 2018 - to turn one lot into 178 lots, including two multiple residential projects and a shopping centre - until June 2025.
It was due to expire at the end of the year.
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FED up with the sluggish response from insurance companies in assisting residents to get their lives back on track after the devastating Halloween hailstorms, Ipswich City Council has decided to take action.
The damage bill for last year’s storms which hammered Ipswich and Logan is close to $1 billion and only a quarter of building claims have been completed more than four months on.
More than 39,000 claims have been lodged.
The most recent assessment by the Queensland Reconstruction Authority found 478 properties battered by storms had been repaired and 1297 were still damaged.
Of those damaged properties, 704 remain tarped and 341 are still uninhabitable.
Government accused of âdismissing and belittlingâ A government has been blasted for ignoring the demands of Indigenous people at three sites across the state.
Politics by James Hall
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Subscriber only The Palaszczuk government has been accused of dismissing the concerns of Indigenous elders in favour of mining and property developers in a spray delivered by state Greens MP Amy MacMahon. The Member for South Brisbane cited three regions in Queensland where First Nations people are fighting development projects to preserve culturally significant land, blasting the Labor government for failing to learn from the highly publicised destruction of the Juukan Gorge by mining giant Rio Tinto.