The latest project to build a cable car up Hobart's Mt Wellington/kunanyi is dead, after the proponent company confirmed it had not lodged an appeal of last month's tribunal decision denying permission.
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The Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last month upheld a decision of the Hobart City Council to knock back the Mount Wellington Cableway Company's proposal, which included constructing a large visitor centre near the pinnacle.
The cable would have stretched from the peak to a 3,400 square metre base station at South Hobart, and would have been supported by three pylons of between 35 metres and 55 metres in height.
The company also sought to build a 2.2-kilometre access road.
Like similar projects before it, MWCC's proposition was aggressively opposed by a coalition of Greens activists and environmentalists, South Hobart locals and the Hobart City Council.
The Council rejected the proposal last year, as well as the company's amended proposal, which would have cut down the visible profile of the pinnacle visitor centre by 40 per cent.
TASCAT noted that the Hobart City Council had published 26 grounds for refusal of the project last year, and in its decision last month, the Tribunal concluded that the project proponent had failed in their appeal of 18 of them.
A spokesman for MWCC said on Tuesday that the company had not lodged an appeal by Monday, when the 30-day window of opportunity to appeal expired.
He said the company might make a statement about the reasons behind its decision to not appeal in the coming days.
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