Land clearing for defence housing remains on hold

Indigenous and environmental activists are hailing the ruling to pause land clearing at Lee Point. (Esther Linder/AAP PHOTOS)

Further land-clearing work for defence housing at a sensitive Indigenous site is on hold following a ruling that a legal challenge must be resolved first.

Eighteen hectares of land at Lee Point, north of Darwin, has already been cleared by Defence Housing Australia to make way for an 800-home development.