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Nimbin, Co-Living and Cooperative Housing: 50 Years of ignoring council and getting on with it
How Australia’s planning system spent fifty years failing to understand something a group of hippies solved on a hillside in 1973. The road into Nimbin doesn’t announce itself. You leave the highway somewhere past Lismore, climb into the hinterland through cane and cattle country, and then the landscape changes. The air gets heavier. The…
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The Registered Planner Certified Assessment Model: How to Make It Work in NSW Right Now
MPGA: The Limited Planning Series Nobody Asked For – Article 2 The first article in this series argued that the Council DA Planner is redundant for permissible use assessments and should be replaced with a Registered Planner certified assessment model. The response was significant. The argument clearly touched a nerve. But provocation without a…