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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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Victorian Planning Minister approves controversial lead battery recycling plant in Latrobe Valley
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JanJanuary 2021 at 7:56pm
More than 50 community members protested outside the Hazelwood North Primary School over the approval of a lead battery recycling plant.
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Residents of a Gippsland farming community are angry and some say they are considering moving after the Victorian Planning Minister stepped in to approve a secondary lead smelter before a tribunal had the opportunity to review the project.
Key points:
The Victorian Government has intervened to approve a secondary lead smelter in Gippsland
VCAT was due to decide whether the project should go ahead after the local council opposed it