- 1. Clock Tower planning application stays at 7 storeys
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- Bob Forrest’s planning application for the Clock Tower which goes to the Town’s Committee of the Whole on 28 November 2016 will be in exactly the same form as the application that went before the second ...
- Created on 26 October 2016
- 2. New Secondary Plan means more people and more high density buildings on Mulock Drive
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- ... Express Rail. This means a new Secondary Plan for the Mulock area with work starting in 2017. I support the new GO Rail station at Mulock for a thousand reasons (which I needn’t go into here) but, ...
- Created on 06 October 2016
- 3. King George School plans and elevations
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- The drawings and elevations of the proposed development at the old school site are now available. You can check them out here. Comment will follow. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Created on 03 October 2016
- 4. Plans released for proposed King George School development
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- ... into 11 apartments. If the development goes ahead as planned it means the loss of open space and much more intensive land use – something which leading opinion formers such the Mayor, Tony Van Bynen, ...
- Created on 30 September 2016
- 5. Peter’s Plan gets the cold shoulder from the BIA
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- To the BIA* meeting at the Community Centre in Doug Duncan Drive to hear Ward 5 hopeful, Peter Geibel, tell the downtown’s business people why Bob Forrest should relocate his planned Clock Tower development ...
- Created on 21 September 2016
- 6. The role of Tim Hortons in the planning process in Newmarket
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- Tim Hortons has an important role in the planning process in Newmarket. It is a neutral location where developers can meet individual councillors and talk about their pet projects over a cup of coffee ...
- Created on 21 May 2016
- 7. Clock Tower: Plan for Town Parking under Market Square abandoned
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- Plans to extend the proposed underground garage at the Clock Tower to allow for municipal parking were explored by councillors last year before being abandoned. The Forrest proposal, currently before ...
- Created on 21 May 2016
- 8. Newmarket’s Secondary Plan. Seven years from start to finish.
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- The appeal against Newmarket’s Urban Centres Secondary Plan (OPA10) will not be settled at the OMB until January 23, 2017 – almost seven years after the whole tortuous and flawed process began. Newmarket’s ...
- Created on 19 May 2016
- 9. Deputations and Committee Clash over Clock Tower Plans
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- ... to the district’s historic character.” Newmarket Heritage Advisory Committee chair, Atholl Hart, whose Committee earlier this month also rejected the Forrest plans, spoke movingly and eloquently about ...
- Created on 18 April 2016
- 10. Forrest's Clock Tower plans blow a hole in Town's parking standar
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- The much anticipated report by the Town’s planners on Bob Forrest’s proposed Clock Tower development has now been published. The report goes to the Committee of the Whole on 18 April 2016. You can read ...
- Created on 09 April 2016
- 11. Heritage Committee throws out Forrest’s plan for 7 storey apartment block in heart of historic downtown
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- Newmarket’s Heritage Advisory Committee this evening unanimously rejected plans by developer Bob Forrest to build an out-of-place apartment block at the Clock Tower in the heart of the historic downtown. ...
- Created on 05 April 2016