00:02The mayor of most of the Darwin rural area pushing back against Palmerston's efforts
00:07to take some of its land and thousands of future ratepayers.
00:11I wouldn't want to live in Palmerston and if I had purchased a block off the plan and
00:20it was planned for Litchfield I'd be really proud of that and then if then the title settled
00:25and I found out it was in Palmerston I would be ropeable.
00:31The city of Palmerston has made a submission to the NT government to expand its boundaries.
00:36Under the proposal the industrial complex at East Arm and a new residential development
00:42in Holtz would become part of Darwin's satellite city.
00:45Its mayor Athena Pascoe-Ball says this makes sense as East Arm provides employment to Palmerston
00:51residents and ratepayers in Holtz will use Palmerston's facilities.
00:56The population out there is likely to rely on services and opportunities in the city
01:01of Palmerston and probably will identify more of the city of Palmerston than any of the other
01:06centres in Litchfield.
01:08Litchfield's Rachel Wright says even if all that changed was the council the impact on
01:13Holtz residents would be major.
01:14Where you live is a really important part of your life and your identity and the people
01:21that live in Litchfield are really proud.
01:23But Ms Pascoe-Ball says the new developments will be more like Palmerston than Litchfield.
01:28They are 350-450 square metre subdivisions very similar to what you already see in Palmerston so
01:37it isn't really a rural field.
01:39The submission is being reviewed and local government minister Steve Edgington is expected to
01:44make a decision next year.
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