VCAT has approved a three and five storey village development in Elgin Street, Hawthorn. The Catholic Homes VCAT application gave the council just 10 days to respond; their accepted argument was that being located between the business and residential precinct, it was deemed transitional.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home