What do you think?
Does the wording in our planning scheme need to be stronger?
A reader who has followed our weekly planning series during January spotted this elevated “stack” of shipping containers on Phillip Island, “seemingly being built up into a structure”.
“It hardly seems appropriate to me,” he said, explaining he then asked shire planners about the structure and was told the shipping containers required no planning permit, but they did require a building permit.
“It seems the good intentions of the Phillip Island and San Remo Design Framework are just that and carry no weight,” the reader added.
“I’m a bit shocked that this kind of development can proceed with seemingly no neighbourhood or character oversight. It reinforces to me that the planning scheme needs more definitive statements.”
