Legal Basis for Constructing the West Gate Freeway Large Format LED Sign

Here’s the legal basis for why I can build a large-format LED sign on my mother’s land at 7 Cullen Court, Spotswood without needing a planning permit from Hobsons Bay Council or permission from the Department of Transport:

1. The land is zoned TRZ2 (Transport Zone 2) — a zoning classification designed exclusively for government-held transport land.
2. I’m a private citizen and my mother owns the land outright.
3. The Department of Transport has never owned, leased, or reserved this parcel. In fact, the Victorian Executive Council discontinued the former road (Cullen Street) in 1978 and ordered it transferred into private ownership. Title was issued under Instrument H323270. It’s been privately held and rateable ever since.

Here’s where the rubber meets the road:

TRZ2 zoning was applied to land that the government has no legal authority over.

This means:

1. Council has no jurisdiction. Hobsons Bay Council confirmed this to me in writing.
2. The Department of Transport is not the responsible authority either — confirmed in writing via an FOI (Freedom of Information) response.
3. No planning permit pathway exists — because no authority is empowered to process it.

So what happens when a private citizen finds themselves on a TRZ2-zoned property that nobody governs?

You either sit there indefinitely or you do what I’m doing:

1. You build a trailer hire business.
2. You consider constructing a large-format LED freeway-facing sign.
3. You live stream it all.

And you do it lawfully — because any action taken to stop you would expose the truth:

The zoning is ultra vires (beyond legal power). It should never have been applied in the first place.

So until the Minister for Planning corrects this absurdity and returns the land to the lawful jurisdiction of Hobsons Bay Council, I am the de facto site governor — and I will continue undertaking compliance, activation, and amenity upgrades without asking for permission from institutions that (at present time) have no lawful power.