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A worker moves coal briquettes onto a pedicab at a coal distribution business in Huaibei, Anhui province on January 30, 2013. Environmental concerns particularly over the use of coal have been pushed to the top of the national agenda after much of the country was covered with a blanket of pollution earlier this year.
Beijing is Trapped in its Polluted Neighborhood
August 9, 2013
By Zhang Chun, Assistant Editor in chinadialogue’s Beijing office. This article was first published by chinadialogue.
In 2011, approximately 9,900 premature deaths in China are estimated to have been due to pollution. The Ministry of Environmental Protection recently released a pollution ranking of seventy-four cities over the first three months of the year. Of the ten most polluted, seven are in Hebei, with the provincial capital Shijiazhuang top of the list.
Home hunters in Sydney and Melbourne can still find quality bargains near the city for less than $600,000.
Record-low interest rates have fuelled a property price boom pushing median house prices in Sydney above $1.1million for the first time ever.
The surge in property prices is so dramatic the Reserve Bank of Australia is worried about low-income people, including the young, missing out following the end of JobKeeper wage subsidies. If housing prices continue to rise as the end of stimulus payments slows household income growth, this will present renewed challenges for housing affordability for lower-income households, it said on Friday.
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To vary a development standard in an environmental planning instrument, an application must be made under clause 4.6 of the relevant local environmental plan. This clause enables a variation to a development standard to be approved, provided the matters set out in that clause are satisfied.
Since the Land and Environment Court’s decision in
Four2Five vs Ashfield Council [2015] NSWLEC 1009, the requirements for a successful application have been the subject of intense scrutiny by consent authorities.
Arguing a successful clause 4.6 application is often fraught with difficulty.
Now, the NSW State Government is proposing to change clause 4.6 and is inviting submissions on its proposal until 12 May 2021.