Housing

  • Council supports housing plan

    Colac Otway Shire Council will move within months to sell vacant land in Colac’s Bruce Street, in hopes of boosting housing stock for the city.

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  • Call to change tax break to help Bay housing

    Negative gearing is making it harder for locals and workers to secure housing at Apollo Bay, business leaders say.  

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  • HOUSING TALKS: MP clarifies ‘housing crisis’

    COLAC’S state MP has clarified that the issue he described as a “chronic housing crisis” in Colac is actually a potential shortage of higher-quality housing.

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  • Tenant trashes Colac property

    THE STATE Government hopes to have a Colac property, which tenants have abandoned with piles of rubbish and furniture, cleaned up “as soon as possible”.

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  • Colac house price rebound

    COLAC’S 11-per-cent property price turnaround in the past four years is among the highest in Australia, with market confidence up and homes selling fast.

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  • Family evicted for ‘public safety’

    AUTHORITIES evicted a family from a derelict Colac district property “in the interests of public safety”.

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  • Children lived with drugs and filth

    PILL packets, alcohol bottles, soiled mattresses, food scraps, animal faeces and broken furniture – that’s how a Colac woman has lived with her four children.

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  • Mansion’s transformation to begin

    THE grounds around Colac’s historic Balnagowan House are set to transform in coming months.

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