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Recycle Your Ewaste For Free - Sunday 1st March
The City is holding a free e-waste recycling collection day for residents on Sunday 1 March, from 9.00am - 3.00pm. E-waste is electronic waste, which if not recycled or disposed of properly, can be hazardous. During the last collection day residents recycled over nine tonnes of e-waste and prevented up to 45 tonnes of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere. By recycling your e-waste you can help save energy and natural resources.
Get involved: Create your own butterfly wings and raise money to help transform the lives of homeless Australians
Visit www.transformhomelessness.com.au and help raise $1 to help transform the lives of the 105,000 Australians who are without a home every night. It won't cost you a cent and will take only a minute of your time.
Update: DA D/2008/1919 for the ground floor below the former DCM/UN premises at 31-33 Oxford Street - REFUSED
The application was determined under delegation of Council and was refused consent on 16th December 2008.
You can read the reasons given for refusal here, and the planner's assessment report here.
The application proposed to change the ground floor retail space, currently Oxford Variety, to a licensed lounge bar for 85 people – as part of a broader redevelopment project also involving the upstairs nightclub.
Get involved: DA D/2008/1919 – Ground floor below former DCM/UN premises at 31-33 Oxford Street – submissions close 3rd December 2008
This application proposes to change the ground floor retail space, currently Oxford Variety, to a licensed lounge bar for 85 people – as part of a broader redevelopment project also involving the upstairs nightclub.
Proposed hours of operation are 11.00 am to 3.00 am Sundays to Thursdays, and 11.00 am to 5.00 am Fridays, Saturdays and any night preceding a public holiday.
The front of the site will consist of a bar area with a capacity of 65 people, and a separate smokers’ lounge with a capacity of 20 people.
Update: DA D/2008/1694 – The Exchange Hotel – Courtyard Smoking Area – APPROVED
This application to use an 11sqm outdoor courtyard on the north-eastern side of the ground floor as a smoking room was granted consent as from 7 November 2008. The consent is subject to a number of conditions which include:
- A maximum number of 8 patrons are permitted to use the smoking courtyard at any one time.
- There is to be no consumption of beverages (alcoholic or otherwise) AT ANY TIME within the smoking courtyard.
- Hours of operation between 10am and 1am, 7 days a week, for a trial period of 12 months.