Protecting and Advocating for Tasmania's Future through Better Planning.
Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania is a growing network of almost 80 diverse community groups from across lutruwita/Tasmania. Our Alliance members recognise land use planning impacts every inch of Tasmania. They are united in common concern over the current Tasmanian state planning laws and what they will mean for Tasmania’s future.
We hold that good planning is fundamental to supporting both people and nature to thrive and underpins a healthy democracy and how we respond to climate change.
PMAT’s vision is for Tasmania to be a global leader in planning excellence. We believe best practice planning must embrace and respect all Tasmanians, enhance community well-being, health and prosperity, nourish and care for Tasmania’s outstanding natural values, recognise and enrich our cultural heritage and, through democratic and transparent processes, deliver sustainable, integrated development in harmony with the surrounding environment.
Help Improve Liveability in Tasmania
What makes your neighbourhood feel like home? Parks, affordable housing, community services? Now’s your chance to share.
Liveability of Tasmanian communities, neighbourhoods and towns is fundamental and critical to the wellbeing of our citizens.
One of the important elements of liveability that affects us all is sound municipal and state planning.
Right now, planning decisions too often favour developers over community needs. This 15-minute census is your opportunity to share — and help shift the focus back to people and place. Please take the census now and help put communities back at the centre of planning decisions.
#ScrapTheDAP & Maintain Planning Appeal Rights & Your Right of Say
Update: Thank you to everyone who made a submission, your support is greatly appreciated. PMAT will be providing an analysis on the submissions as soon as they’re public.
In another step in a long line of anti-democratic measures introduced by the Government, it released another draft DAP Bill for public comment which closed 24 April 2025. The Bill proposes further anti-democratic changes to undermine Councils and communities right of say across all urban/private land and reserved/public land including our National Parks and World Heritage Areas by:
- Proposing to introduce Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) which removes planning appeal rights
- Removing/limiting planning appeal rights via changing the rules in our main land use planning legislation
Our Work
The Our Work section is a work in progress. New topics will be progressively added covering issues such as State of the Environment Reporting, the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, State Elections, climate change and mitigation, housing, residential standards and urban amenity, transparency and democracy, geodiversity, population, Regional Land Use Strategies, heritage buildings and landscapes.
Development Assessment Panels (DAPs)
Keeping Local Councils Local
National Parks & Reserves
Housing & Planning
Community Guides
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