Last night at a marathon Council meeting that went until past midnight, and with a full and very patient gallery who waited for three hours for this item to be debated, Council approved my Notice of Motion to permit Detached Dual Occupancies after seven years of delay and disappointment with our moribund LEP process. There’s some way to go yet. The proposal now needs to be presented to the local Planning Panel, the State government’s gateway process, and be placed on public exhibition. Despite this, staff admit that this change may still beat the LEP to the finish line, which is precisely my intention. Thanks to the passionate public speakers, and to my colleagues who endorsed this almost unanimously, with the exception of the Labor Councillor Amanda Kotlash.