Protecting Lutruwita/Tasmania's communities, nature, cultural heritage and democracy through better planning.

Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania is a growing network of almost 80 diverse community groups from across Lutruwita/Tasmania, united by a shared belief: that good planning is essential to protecting Tasmania’s communities, environment, cultural and built heritage and democracy.

As the only organisation in Lutruwita/Tasmania solely focused on better planning, we work to ensure Tasmania’s planning system — guided by the Resource Management and Planning System (RMPS) — serves people and nature, safeguarding our coasts, landscapes, national parks and heritage while supporting liveable, sustainable communities for the future.

Our Work & Campaigns

PMAT works across a full range of planning issues that shape Lutruwita/Tasmania’s communities and environment — from protecting our coasts, national parks, healthy landscapes and Aboriginal heritage, to housing, residential standards, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and good governance, including transparency and democracy.

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AI Data Centres

AI data centres are being planned and built across lutruwita/Tasmania, and our planning system isn't ready for them. PMAT is calling for a moratorium until the rules are in place, with public comment and appeal rights guaranteed.

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Local Government Elections

Democracy cannot function without communication. In order for voters to make informed choices among candidates, voters must learn about candidates’ policy positions. During the last two Local Government elections PMAT surveyed candidates to ask their position on planning.

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Development Assessment Panels (DAPs)

PMAT is fighting proposed legislation that would fast-track developments across public and private land, including Tasmania's National Parks, Reserves and World Heritage Areas, while removing third-party appeal rights and sidelining communities and Local Councils from planning decisions.

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Tasmanian State Coastal Policy

Tasmania's coastlines are under threat. PMAT is fighting proposed legislation that would fast-track weakening of the State Coastal Policy, stripping back protections for our coasts and the communities, ecosystems and cultural heritage that depend on them.

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State of The Environment Reporting

Tasmania's natural environment is under serious pressure, as documented in the long-overdue 2024 State of Environment Report. PMAT is pushing for the Tasmanian Government to meet its legal obligation to report every five years and be held accountable for the state of our environment.

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Community Guides

PMAT produces free community guides to help Tasmanians engage with planning and Local Government processes and have their say on decisions that affect their communities, landscapes and natural environment.

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Local Government elections are underway across lutruwita/Tasmania, with polls closing on 27 October.

To help you make an informed choice, PMAT surveyed candidates across key planning issues and democracy. There are 441 candidates nominated across all 29 councils. We were able to obtain 384 emails for candidates, with 97 responses. That’s about one in four, with responses from 26 of the 29 council areas.

Thank you to every candidate who took the time to complete our survey.

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Update: Land Use Planning & Approvals (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2026

In 2026, the Planning Minister tried to give himself unchecked new powers to re-zone land and apply/remove the 16 planning Codes of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme. In a major victory PMAT stopped the Planning Minister’s attempt to secure sweeping new land-rezoning powers but he now has new powers over the implementation of all the overlays or Codes. PMAT believes local Councils should determine the zone maps, lists and overlays of the Codes of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, not the Minister.

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Study Planning at UTAS

If you’re interested in one of these courses you can book a 20-minute consultation call here.

Graduate Diploma of Environmental Planning

Master of Planning

Graduate Certificate in Urban Planning

Support Us

Make a donation to Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania. Good planning protects our communities, democracy, cultural heritage and natural environment. Without it, the people and places that make lutruwita/Tasmania special are at risk. PMAT is the only organisation solely focused on advocating for better planning — and we rely entirely on people like you to keep that fight going.

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