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Dorset Council spends more than $36,000 in legal costs after illegally building works depot on mining lease
The Dorset Council has spent tens of thousands of dollars of ratepayer’s money in legal costs in a fight with the state government, after illegally building a works depot on a mining lease in Tasmania’s north-east.
Key points:
- The Dorset Council built a depot partially inside a sand mining lease without prior approval from government departments
- The holder of the mining lease has objected to transferring the land to the council, saying the land has a “strategically important” amount of sand and basalt
- To date the legal battle between the council and government departments has cost ratepayers more than $30,000
Last year it was revealed the Dorset Council built its Derby depot partially inside the boundary of a sand mining lease, without…
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