Federal nod to $500m housing project at Wallarah Peninsula
A$500 MILLION Coal & Allied plan to build 935 dwellings on the Wallarah Peninsula in southern Lake Macquarie has received federal approval.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's approval has helped lift the plan from a six-month legal limbo.
The 106-hectare plan was caught up in a landmark Land and Environment Court ruling, along with several other major Hunter developments.
The court ruled in September that a NSW Government deal with Rose Group for 800 houses at Catherine Hill Bay and Gwandalan in exchange for conservation land amounted to a "land bribe".
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