Month: July 2015

Brisbane City Council’s decision to approve a major residential development on Montague Road has quickly attracted strong criticism from the community, with the West End Community Association calling the decision “a betrayal of residents’. In a statement issued overnight, Association President Dr Erin Evans said: The decision for the former Distance Ed site (11 Ferry Rd West End) site was made public today.   The public opposition to the proposal has been similar to draft Kurilpa Master Plan, which was torn up by the newly elected Deputy Premier. Hundreds of residents showed their alarm that a proposal that had...

More than 1300 people have objected to the proposed expansion of New Hope’s Acland mine earmarked for important farmland at the Darling Downs. Submissions close today for the Environmental Assessment and the Mining Lease for the controversial project. Lock the Gate Alliance spokesperson, Drew Hutton said the State Government was under pressure to honour its pre-election promise to reinstate landholders’ rights to object to the expansion’s environmental assessment. “The LNP stole people’s rights to object in the middle of the night and the ALP said before the election that they would give those rights back,” Mr Hutton said. “It’s...