Just got an updated today. Not good news. Turns out since their application was valid as at April 2010, the DA was extended by default (as were all other ones) for an additional three years (for a total of 5). Therefore the final date they have to COMMENCE building work is August 27th, 2014.
While this is a major setback, there are a number of things within the DA that they must conform to before a Construction Certificate will be granted. One of which is that they must not have speakers that are on council land, pointed towards council land or can be heard from council land (the same goes for spruikers). This means if they do somehow manage to open the building, it will be illegal for them to set up speakers to attempt to drown us out at that specific Org. Furthermore, they must remove all grafitti within 48 hours of its application, while minor, we could easily trip them up on it.
As for the building being condemned by the fire department, this isn't entirely true. What happened was that the Fire Safety Certificate was revoked as the council deemed the building to be unsafe from a Fire Safety perspective. So that they could not commence building work until this Certificate is gained.
Furthermore, NO CONSTRUCTION can take place until they have a proper Construction Certificate, this could potentially include stripping the building for wiring, so if we have any information that could confirm that they have done building work to the building (which I'm fairly sure they have) we'll need to compile this information and hand it over to the council so that we can ensure that the cult follows every single piece of damn law and regulation they are required to follow.
While this is a major setback, there are a number of things within the DA that they must conform to before a Construction Certificate will be granted. One of which is that they must not have speakers that are on council land, pointed towards council land or can be heard from council land (the same goes for spruikers). This means if they do somehow manage to open the building, it will be illegal for them to set up speakers to attempt to drown us out at that specific Org. Furthermore, they must remove all grafitti within 48 hours of its application, while minor, we could easily trip them up on it.
As for the building being condemned by the fire department, this isn't entirely true. What happened was that the Fire Safety Certificate was revoked as the council deemed the building to be unsafe from a Fire Safety perspective. So that they could not commence building work until this Certificate is gained.
Furthermore, NO CONSTRUCTION can take place until they have a proper Construction Certificate, this could potentially include stripping the building for wiring, so if we have any information that could confirm that they have done building work to the building (which I'm fairly sure they have) we'll need to compile this information and hand it over to the council so that we can ensure that the cult follows every single piece of damn law and regulation they are required to follow.



