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City awarded for planning prowess

The City of Greater Bendigo’s Hospital Precinct Structure Plan has won the Best Planning Ideas – Small Project category at this year’s Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) Planning Excellence Awards.

City planners were also recognised for working collaboratively with Birchgrove Property to enable the development of a new community on a 125ha lot at Edwards Rd, Maiden Gully.

Planning and Development Director, Prue Mansfield, said the recognition highlighted the quality of the City’s planning staff.

New staircases improve access to Cable Beach

Collaboration between Yawuru traditional owners, the Shire of Broome and the Department of Parks and Wildlife has improved visitor access to the world-renowned Cable Beach.

Environment Minister Albert Jacob said the recent completion of the Balarri and Birndany trail staircases and a viewing platform in between Banu Avenue and Howe Drive, along Gubinge Road, had improved access for tourists while conserving fragile sand dunes within Minyirr Park.

Randwick Mayor Noel D’Souza rules out parking meters

Randwick Mayor Noel D’Souza has today reassured local residents and businesses that there are no plans to introduce onstreet parking meters in Randwick City.

“I can’t say it more simply than this – there are no plans to introduce onstreet parking meters,” Mayor D’Souza said. “Anybody who suggests to the contrary is either misinformed or is being deliberately mischievous.”

Recycling benefits people, profits and planet

A new report from Planet Ark, titled All Sorted: Answering the Big Recycling Questions and commissioned for National Recycling Week, includes the top mistakes and main contaminants that confuse people when it comes to recycling.

Clarence Valley Council waste education officer, Suzanne Lynch, said 115 councils across Australia were surveyed and asked to identify the three most common recycling mistakes made by their residents.