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Justin Stanford at the Night Cat in Fitzroy.

Much-loved music venue ordered to improve its soundproofing – for flats that don’t exist

Justin Stanford’s Night Cat in Fitzroy may have to close after being ordered to make costly upgrades because of a residential building that doesn’t yet have planning approval.

  • Alexander Darling and Tom Cowie

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An anti-Woolworths development demonstrator confronts a YIMBY heckler at a community rally in Elsternwick.

Elsternwick erupts: NIMBYs v YIMBYs as VCAT bypass fuels local fury

Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.

  • Adam Carey
The road into Little River.

Residents opposed this solar farm. Then the government changed the rules

A massive solar farm near Geelong will be fast-tracked after opponents, including Catriona Rowntree, waged a campaign against it

  • Bianca Hall
The McDonaldd’s drive-through in Kew and the surrounding houses.

Burghers of Kew v Macca’s burgers: 24-hour drive-through plan on the nose

Neighbouring Kew residents are taking on the fast food giant, fearing further disruption to their lives.

  • Tom Cowie
The Australian Club’s grand facade.

Men-only clubs were hit with land tax for barring women. They aren’t happy with the bill

The Melbourne Club and Australian Club are fighting combined land tax bills of over $1 million claiming their heritage status restricts redevelopment of the land.

  • Tom Cowie
Gerry and Bronwyn Borghesi at the bottom of the hill where a landslide destroyed the home below theirs.

‘It’s quite unstable’, says expert of McCrae landslide site once known as Spring Hill

The landslide in McCrae happened in a part of the Mornington Peninsula locals once called Spring Hill, owing to the extensive underwater flows in the area.

  • Adam Carey
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Residents of a heritage estate in Canterbury have lost a VCAT case against Strathcona Girls Grammar.

‘Parasite’: The private school trying to eat a housing estate

Strathcona Girls Grammar School is offside with its neighbours after buying homes near its main campus and using VCAT to overturn a protective covenant.

  • Adam Carey
Abha Anuradha Kumar.

Nurse to return $880,000 inheritance from patient she knew for 24 days

Disgraced nurse Abha Kumar ordered a will kit within three days of meeting 92-year-old Lionel Cox at a Collingwood aged care facility in 2015. The Supreme Court has ordered she return an inheritance of almost $1 million.

  • Cameron Houston
Dan Jordan’s rent almost doubled within two years.

Rent rage rising as complaints about ‘excessive’ increases surge

The number of tenanted properties in Victoria has also dropped by more than 6000 in a year, despite a Victorian government target to increase supply.

  • Rachel Eddie
An artist’s image of the future Fitzroy Gasworks housing project.

The inner-city site about to get 800 new homes

The Allan government is ramping up attacks on progressive parties across the inner-city, as it announces an 800-unit development in the inner north today.

  • Kieran Rooney and Adam Carey

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