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Building Stronger Homes Roundtable generates ideas to
support homes against natural disasters
The Building Stronger Homes Roundtable convened by the
Insurance Council of Australia and Master Builders Australia has
proposed a number of disaster mitigation and resilience initiatives
that will help to strengthen existing homes and communities against
extreme weather events (19 February 2021). More.
Housing construction eclipses records
Construction on new houses will hit a record high this
year, however, there are concerns this boom could be short-lived.
Demographic shifts and HomeBuilder boosted this number however land
constraints will limit new builds according to HIA (18 February
2021). More.
New South Wales
Benjamin Millar
Melton council has launched legal action in the Supreme Court against the state government’s approval of toxic West Gate Tunnel soil being dumped in Ravenhall, the latest twist in the long-running saga.
State Planning Minister Richard Wynne late last year delivered approval for Cleanaway to receive and store contaminated soil from the $6.8 billion project at its Ravenhall tip and for Maddingley Brown Coal to take the soil in Bacchus Marsh.
But Melton council’s chief executive last week instructed lawyers to challenge the planning minister’s green light for the soil to be processed in the area.
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The Andrews government is being sued by a group of residents and a council in Melbourneâs west over plans to dump soil contaminated with potentially carcinogenic PFAS chemicals from the West Gate Tunnel in landfills located close to homes.
Maddingley Brown Coal landfill in Bacchus Marsh was one of the sites approved to take soil from the West Gate Tunnel.
Credit:Luis Ascui
Documents lodged in the Supreme Court on Thursday show the Moorabool community group has requested a judicial review of Planning Minister Richard Wynneâs decision to amend the Moorabool Planning Scheme, which would allow potentially millions of tonnes of PFAS-contaminated soil to be dumped at the Maddingley Brown Coal landfill in Bacchus Marsh.