VCAT

  • VCAT appeal win

    VCAT appeal win

    Plans for a Kyneton special needs family refuge have been approved in a VCAT appeal despite its Farm Zone location….

  • Shed home approved

    Shed home approved

    Malmsbury farmer Travis Bruni has won the fight to turn his shed come ‘man cave’ into a legal residence. Mr…

  • Residents reject billboard

    Residents reject billboard

    Eve Lamb A VCAT hearing to determine if a large promotional advertising hoarding can be erected at a major entryway…

  • Tourism-draw questioned

    Tourism-draw questioned

    A multi-million dollar redevelopment of ‘The Old Factory’ in Woodend has been rejected at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal….

  • Brewery battle ends

    Brewery battle ends

    Holgate Brewhouse’s new discovery centre has been granted dining privileges and increased opening hours in the resolution of a bungled…

  • Romsey aged care to VCAT

    Romsey aged care to VCAT

    A 120-bed residential aged-care facility for Romsey has Macedon Ranges Council’s tick of approval as it progresses to the Victorian…

  • Council error to VCAT

    Council error to VCAT

    “Extension by stealth” is how some objectors have described changed operating conditions for Holgates Brewhouse’s discovery centre and beer gardens….

  • Castlemaine supermarket plan heads to VCAT

    Castlemaine supermarket plan heads to VCAT

    A controversial planning permit application for a proposed Woolworths supermarket in Castlemaine’s Forest Street is headed to VCAT with a…

  • Kyneton South subdivision to VCAT

    Kyneton South subdivision to VCAT

    Residents of Kyneton South have won the support of the local council in their fight against an 87-lot subdivision for…

  • FARM DECISION OVERTHROWN

    FARM DECISION OVERTHROWN

    Macedon Ranges Council’s decision to refuse farmland development for a small-scale farm venture at Woodend North has been overthrown by…

  • Farmers win in land battle

    Farmers win in land battle

    A fourth generation Springfield farming family has taken on the state government in a David and Goliath battle over land,…

  • VCAT rejects Gisborne South Buddhist temple bid

    VCAT rejects Gisborne South Buddhist temple bid

    Plans for a Buddhist temple at Gisborne South have been scrapped following the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s ruling to…