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The City of Gosnells has continued its long-running work to assist the Black Cockatoo Preservation Society by giving retrospective planning approval for six outbuildings at a private residence in Martin.
At the same time it has imposed conditions to ensure noise levels from the private property meet legal requirements.
Acting Chief Executive Officer Adelle Cochran said Council had worked with the Society for months to assist it in getting a new operations centre up and running and it had been disappointing to see so much misinformation distributed by the Society about the City's position, especially on the internet.
"Inaccurate and misleading information has been distributed and accepted as fact and published online and in the media with no effort to check the real situation," she said.
"I want to state categorically that there has at no stage been any threat from Council to close the centre. To the contrary we have worked long and hard to assist the Society to carry out its work within the relevant legal framework.
"We have provided the Society a bigger, better, facility at a peppercorn rent at the former Cohunu Wildlife Park."
"On 14 July Council passed a resolution that grants conditional retrospective planning permission to six unlawful outbuildings at the private residence in Martin, while at the same time addressing the noise issues identified in a report by a Society appointed noise expert. This study found noise levels of between 46 and 53 decibels at the property boundary, which exceeded the Environmental Protection (Noise) Regulations 1997 legal level of 35."
"The City would now urge the Society to relocate its main operations as soon as possible to avoid further issues and to make sure planning conditions applying to the private residence in Martin are adhered to."
Full information on the resolution passed by Council can be found at www.gosnells.wa.gov.au
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Gosnells needs tourist attractions - you would think that this would be a good opportunity to promote Gosnells to the world, yet all the world sees is a triangle of a property developer, a conversationalist group and an endangered species, and a local council bending over backwards to help .. and guess which side they appear to be helping ...
ReplyDeleteI thought gov environmental dept are supposed to protect the environment not silence them?
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ReplyDeleteIf there were wild cockatoos across the way from the Fini's... which come in large numbers, would They petition for DEC's or someone to come and remove them? I also think the petition in respect to outbuildings of the Cockatoo joint being oversized and an eyesaw is a pure dig.. and i would recommend that perhaps the Fini's could plant a tree (Marri's the best nuts) to block that view maybe...
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