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News ArchivesFOLLOWING community outcry about trees being cut down in Main Street and removed in Kingdon Street the Council has issued an apology for not consulting with the community,
LAST week three trees on Main Street, next to the Council offices in Scone, were chopped down in a shroud of community confusion and yesterday six more trees on Kingdon Street,
SCONE.COM.AU recently published an article The Case For Rezoning Industrial, in which we gave who we thought was the owner of two blocks in Phillip Street the opportunity to explain their plans for rezoning,
By Taylah Fellows
Single-use plastics have become a way of life, from buying a sausage roll wrapped in plastic at the footy,
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BILL Taylor and his wife Julie were shocked to hear the land they owned in Phillip Street may be turned into industrial lots and said Council’s claim that the land was undesirable for residential was a slap in the face.
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BURTON’s, which spent $6 million developing Scone’s new industrial area and employment precinct, said they would seek compensation from the Upper Hunter Shire Council through the Land and Environment Court if rezoning of land in Phillip Street from residential to industrial is approved.
IF you missed the A Current Affair story on Friday night about the proposed rezoning of Phillip Street,
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A Current Affair will air a story about Scone residents who are battling Council to save their street from being rezoned industrial.
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A controversial proposal to rezone residential blocks in Phillip Street, Scone was knocked back at the October Council meeting following considerable public pressure.
MICK O’Brien owner of O’Brien’s Machinery Scone said the disparity in Council’s rezoning proposal for Phillip Street was not fair play for local businesses or residents.