BRIMBANK City Council has announced a blitz on the North Sunshine Industrial Estate to ensure businesses and properties are complying with the law.
Brimbank Council said they will issue land-owners with letters of non-compliance if their premises are being used without a planning permit or are looking unsightly due to dumped rubbish.
The council said other non-compliance issues they will be checking for include
illegal storage in designated car parking areas, signs displayed without proper planning approval and unkempt landscaping.
At the end of a 14 day period, if land-owners or occupiers fail to comply with the council warnings, they could face a fine.
Elsewhere in the municipality, Brimbank Council recently took the owner of a Cairnlea business to VCAT for failing to comply with an enforcement letter.
In December last year the council’s compliance officer, Ian Babore, gave evidence 2 Meadow View Way was being used as both a store and a dwelling, without a planning permit.
Mr Babore said he believed the landowner was in the building industry and using his home to illegally store items.
VCAT member Dalia Cook ordered the Cairnlea landholder to remove all the goods not in use at the property and to obtain a planning permit if he wished to continue storing them there.
