Mercury Opinion Piece: Minister’s planning reforms a thinly veiled attempt to centralise power and bypass local councils
Tasmania cannot risk development at any cost, writes Brendan Blomeley.
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Tasmanian Times: Hobart Mayors United Against Controversial ‘Development Panels’
The four Greater Hobart Mayors have expressed strong opposition to the State Government’s draft Development Assessment Panel (DAP) bill, citing major concerns about its potential impact on Tasmania’s planning system.
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Pulse Opinion Piece:‘Self-interest’ accusations fly as greater Hobart mayors oppose new planning powers
“The mayors of greater Hobart have been accused of acting in their own “self-interest” after coming out against plans that could see them stripped of some planning powers for certain [development] projects.”
Mercury Opinion Piece: Lessons to learn blurring lines of private and public
Felix Ellis’s Bill to remove individual planning decisions from local [Tasmanian] government is a real worry, writes Peter Boyer.
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ABC Interview: Tasmanian government’s development plan changes labelled ‘cataclysmic’ by critics, as minister says it is to side-step NIMBYs
Listen to PMAT’s State Director Sophie Underwood, and Clarence Mayor Brendan Blomeley on ABC Mornings speaking about why Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) are terrible for local communities and will take our voice away.
Mercury Article: Draft [DAP] bill is ‘cataclysmic’
“DAPs will take voting rate-payers out of the picture. The people of Tasmania are having their rights stripped away and they do not even know.”
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Mercury Opinion Piece: Flawed DAP process won’t take politics out of the planning picture.
It appears they want [the state government] to create another process that offers developers an assured pathway to get big, controversial projects approved that cuts out councillors, removes appeal rights and ignores local community concerns.
PMAT Media Release: Proposed planning laws are anti-democracy, anti-transparency and will be catastrophic for ordinary Tasmanians
The Tasmanian Government is planning on pushing through legislation to empower the Planning Minister to remove assessment and approval of developments from the normal local council process and have it done by Development Assessment Panels (DAPs). The Planning Minister would also have new powers to instruct councils to commence planning scheme changes, but perversely, only when a local council has rejected such an application.
Mercury Opinion Piece: Bill diminishes critical checks and balances
Informative piece on DAPs published in The Mercury 07/11/24. Writers include Anja Hilkemeijer and Dr Phillipa McCormack who spoke at PMAT’s #SCRAPTHEDAP Public Meeting last year.
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Letter to the Editor: Development panels costly and ineffective
An open letter to Jeremy Rockliff by an ex-planning commissioner, Catherine Nicholson on the ineffectiveness of development assessment panels.
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