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Amendment C131 to regulate earthworks in Nillumbik’s green wedge
Clean fill dumping in the green wedge could soon be regulated if a proposed amendment to the Nillumbik Shire Planning Scheme is successful.
At Council’s request, the Victorian Planning Minister has authorised the preparation of Amendment C131Nill to the Planning Scheme to seek to regulate earthworks in the green wedge.
There is currently no one provision in Victorian Planning Schemes to regulate the deposit of clean fill on land, particularly in the peri-urban areas of Melbourne.
Amendment C131, which applies to the Green Wedge Zone and Rural Conservation Zone, requires a permit for earthworks involving the receipt, importation, stockpiling or placement of more than 100 cubic metres of fill.
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Support for refugees in Mantra Hotel
Nillumbik Shire Council has committed its support to a group of refugees and asylum seekers who have been detained in a hotel in Melbourne’s north for more than a year.
At its meeting last week, Council passed an Urgent Motion affirming its support for the approximately 60 men being held at the Mantra Hotel in Preston.
The men were informed by Commonwealth authorities this week that they would be moved to another location. No further detail on where they would be moved, or under what conditions, has been provided to date.
The men had originally been moved to the hotel from Manus Island under the Commonwealth’s now-defunct Medical Evacuation (Medevac) legislation.