Hobart City Council says Mount Wellington Cable Car Company needs to provide more information on divisive project

The Mount Wellington Cable Car Company has been set back once again. Find out what’s causing the delay this time.

THE process for assessing the Mt Wellington cable car is on hold yet again as the council requests more information from the proponent.

The Mount Wellington Cable Car Company lodged documents with the Hobart City Council on January 6 to address a series of questions arising from its original development application, which was lodged in June last year.

CABLE CAR COMPANY LODGES FRESH INFORMATION

Company chairman Chris Oldfield had said at the time the company had agreed to several extensions to the coming consultation processes and was hopeful of a result by the end of this year.

But, HCC general manager Nick Heath released a statement this afternoon which said the company had failed to provide all extra information required by the council to assess the application.

CABLEWAY COMPANY SET TO LODGE EXTRA INFORMATION

“A panel of external assessment experts has determined that the additional information submitted by the proponent on 6 January does not fully satisfy the original request for further information made in July 2019,” Mr Heath said.

“As such, we have gone back to the proponent stating what further information they still need to lodge to the City of Hobart, as the planning authority, to enable us to fully assess the planning application.”

MT WELLINGTON CABLE CAR PROPOSAL DELAYED

Mr Heath said further information was still needed on Aboriginal heritage, traffic impacts, bushfire planning, biodiversity impacts, sewage management and disposal, and geotechnical assessments.

The assessment process will be on hold until the further information is supplied.

Mr Oldfield said the company found it “a bit strange” the council had issued an extensive media release on the issue without their knowledge.

“We are a little bit surprised that as part of the statutory planning process, the council has seen fit to put out a media release subsequent to inviting us to a meeting next Monday morning,” he told the Mercury.

“We will raise that with them on Monday and once we get a chance to read the information from council and have a discussion, we’ll be happy to make more comment then.”