i recycle aswell what im asking for is of the dep a :"fair go to protect my fambily and assets"from fire. I have a long list of paper work to hold them negliable and accountable?
Problem is its to late......... the information and according paperwork is in a fireproof safe in the main bedroom. This will not be destroyed in the event of a fire.
You will be held responcible and i hope the doc will be placed on murder charges. Thse ****en greenies should hold responcibility and except the requests of the firebrigades,.
What do you do let your fambily burn to death cause a few uni graduated living in appartments justifyn there existance?
Half theres people rejecting my applications have never experience a fire they live in a 200 square metre ****hole overpopulated box in the city?

bunch of freaking useless idiots....
can't stand councils... i don't have a single positive experience with them...

i've also dealt with council with other matters... what i've learned from personal experience and experience of others is you have to take matters in your own hands and figure out "work arounds"... not sure what you would do in your case though... very tricky one... you can always take them to court but then it's $$ issue... maybe try research other court cases similar to your case, and their outcomes... assuming they have positive outcomes, write them a threatening letter that you will take them to court giving them evidence of previous court cases... if this is a matter of safety (as clearly proven during black saturday), then there's gotta be some legislation in place, no???

i went to court once to fight against a boolsh1t parking ticket (and won)... the other time they wouldn't let me replace windows on the front of the house (heritage overlay) as they thought my proposed size was too big, yet they couldn't tell me what size i should put so they said i have to take all the front cladding off on the house so they can see original window cut outs in the old weatherboard which was underneath... i ended up doing that, but also cutting out a bigger window hole in the original weatherboard beneath and then painting the freshly cut edges of the timber to look old like the rest of it... the idiot that made me do it came and bought it ... useless fools... (keep in mind original cutouts were way too small - tiny - like a bunker)

I owned an individually listed heritage building (house) on a corner block with a frontage to a major thoroughfare. I was required to get planning permission for everything. To replace the front and side fence I had to pay the planning permit fee and the council engaged a heritage consultant to determine appropriate fence design. My requirement for a high sound attenuating fence in heritage brick style was knocked back and I had to construct a fence of open design to allow the public view of the building. Never mind that traffic noise drove us crazy. My solution was to withdraw the planning permit and have the fee refunded and simply replace the existing heritage wire fence. I did however plant a dense cyprus hedge which the current owners now allow to grow to about 6 metres high and has fantastic attenuation properties. It does completely obscure the building!
It is rediculous to place such onerous conditions onto the owners of such properties. You don't buy a place like that unless you are willing to upkeep and improve the site.
I take the attitude that we don't "own" our property buster but that we are custodians and should leave them in a better state than when we arrived. In the case of the previous heritage building we undertook a major renovation and extension that actually turned the aspect of the buildings frontage from the short busy thoroughfare frontage to the longer and quieter side frontage, however, unless you knew the building prior to renovation you would be unaware that it was not the original design.
My current property is a 6 acre property with frontage to Lake Connewarre. This brings into play the conflict between council doctrines, conservation values and what we as the custodians consider to be in the best interests of the property. You have to learn the ropes as to how you get all of the conflicting parties to agree with your vision. Good luck with it Buster and don't let it get you down.

Just to add, you could also be fighting a losing battle, and the advice from your lawyer might be to not throw good money after bad.

One example for a good outcome is a local family with some beachfront property purchased over 10 years ago, with intention & permission to build recently went to VCAT after their application was rejected by council. With their lawyers in tow, they won...cost them around $80k in total before even starting to build, but the outcome is that their coastal land is now worth about $1mill with an approved planning permit, instead of 10acres of farm land @$3.5k per acre!

On the flip-side, an example of how things can go terribly wrong - local farmer (father & son) got planning approval to develop farmland along the coast, did all road works, connections etc. was looking at a windfall in profits with each block (under 1/2 acre each >$300k). Suddenly a development overlay was put into place by the Vic gov't and the result was heaps of very small paddocks with road access to each that can never be built on, suitable for farming only (and due to coastal location, near worthless). After fighting the losing battle at VCAT & in the courts, both father & son had to declare bankrupcy, soon followed by a mortgagee's auction!

Planning dept's are a beast all of their own!