Shore thing for couple

摘要

A salutary lesson in the future of planning regulations to come to Diary's attention from our good chums in Australia. It seems Great Lakes Council in New South Wales has come up an innovative, and some would say controversial approach to that thorny issue of building homes so close to the sea. The council gave permission to a couple to build a house near the beach, provided they demolish it in 20 years if sea levels continue to rise. But the decision did not go down well in the local courts and the council was heavily criticised in the local courts.