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Rejection of $80m residential project infuriates developers l EDMONTON | Nick Dalton DEVELOPERS are furious after an $80 million 706-lot residential development at Edmonton was refused by Cairns Regional Council. Councillors at last Wednesday’s council meeting unanimously rejected the preliminary approval sought by the
Fortress Group to subdivide caneland on Mt Peter Rd south of Mt Peter Estate. They accepted the knock back by council officers who in a 134-page report outlined 29 reasons, including that it was premature and out of sequence, failed to provide housing diversity, failed to provide a proper network of safe and efficient roads and would require costly and unplanned
council trunk infrastructure. But Urban Development Institute of Australia Cairns board chairman Nathan Lee Long, the board and its members are “deeply concerned” with the council’s decision. He said it was apparent that the council had lost sight of the significant need for housing in Cairns and their role in ensuring serviced land was
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available. “Cairns is now in a situation where the Mount Peter area, that was declared a master planned area in 2008, has not been provided the trunk infrastructure required to service new homes,” Mr Lee Long said. He said the decision went against the declared master plan and would bring housing construction to a halt.
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