Media release – City of Hobart, 23 June 2021
Cable car planning application moves to next stage
The City of Hobart today confirmed that the Mount Wellington Cableway Company’s (MWCC) planning application for a cable car on kunanyi / Mt Wellington will proceed to the next stage of the planning process.
The four-week public notification period closed yesterday (22 June) with Council receiving some 17,500 representations about the planning application, which is a record.
The previous highest number of representations was around 1500 submissions in 2019 in response to Fragrance Group’s proposal for a hotel in the city’s CBD.
City of Hobart CEO Kelly Grigsby thanked everyone who had made a submission about the cable car planning application.
“The very high level of response underlines how engaged and passionate the people of Hobart are about our city and its future.”
Ms Grigsby said all the formal representations would now be considered by the Planning Authority as part of the assessment process.
“Council’s external assessment experts will spend the next few weeks preparing a report for the Council as part of this complex process,” she said.
“The Council, acting as the Planning Authority, is then due to consider the matter on July 27.”
Ms Grigsby said further details of that meeting would be made available in due course.
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