News

  • Voice reflects on success

    Ensuring a community facility remained in the hands of Apollo Bay locals and building “important relationships with some key bodies” have been highlights for a coastal lobby group one year into its journey.

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  • Repeated calls to find display site for anchor

    Colac Otway community members have expressed their disappointment that an anchor found in Lake Colac eight years ago was not included in a draft of the Colac Botanic Gardens master plan.

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  • Negotiations continuing after prime site auction

    Negotiations are continuing with interested buyers after Colac’s former Mitre 10 building was passed in at auction at a price of $5.5 million.

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  • Recycling to support homeless

    The idea to “recycle and rehome” has led to a new initiative aimed at addressing homelessness across the Colac Otway Shire.

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  • News in Brief

    The latest news in brief including trees cut down in the Colac Botanic Gardens, unauthorised work at a Birregurra property

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  • Future rural land plans

    Plans for a four-lot subdivision in Cororooke have crossed Colac Otway Shire Council planning officers’ desks.

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  • Colac housing plan seeks council approval

    Colac’s Gravesend Street could get three brand news houses including two two-storey houses, under a proposal from developers.

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  • Community responds to plan

    Controversy over the relocation of the CFA’s running track, better toilets, a push to keep the garden fence and concerns regarding the event space – that’s the community feedback on the Colac Otway Shire Council’s draft Colac Botanic Gardens master plan.

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