Tasmanian nature conservation organisations with decades of experience working to create and protect world heritage areas, national parks and other reserves have united to urge election candidates to ‘Scrap the DAPs’ for reserved land.
“More than 200 submissions called on the JDAP to reject the proposal by WA Police to build a four-storey district police centre in the buffer of the world heritage listed Fremantle Prison, which will involve destroying a section of convict-built wall built in the 1850s.”
Herald Journal Opinion Piece: ‘JDAP Ignores 220 Submissions’ Read More »
“Local planning panels were created to stamp out corruption, but councillors from across the political spectrum say they favour developers and undermine democratic accountability.
Liberal mayors have joined Labor and Greens councillors in criticising the NSW planning system.”
PMAT concurs with the opinion piece, published in The Mercury on the 29 November 2023 entitled ‘New planning proposal removes independent review of decisions and risks, undermining confidence’, by Anja Hilkemeijer and Cleo Hansen-Lohrey lecturers in law at the University of Tasmania who teach constitutional law and administrative law respectively.
What is the real reason why the Minister for Planning Michael Ferguson, wants to create DAPs (Development Assessment Panels) to allow property developers to bypass local councils and communities and remove appeal rights?
Media Enquiries Sophie UnderwoodPMAT State Director sophie_underwood@hotmail.com0407 501 999 Please share: Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT) thanks the Premier’s Economic & Social Recovery Advisory Committee (PESRAC) for this opportunity to submit some thoughts on Tasmania’s recovery post- Covid 19. We appreciate the massive task ahead and commend the Premier on making strong decisions to keep Tasmanians
PMAT Submission: PESRAC Dec 2020 Read More »
A draft legislative proposal, released last week, would enable the Minister to decide if a planning scheme amendment should be initiated – like the highly contentious Cambria Green amendment – and not be the responsibility of local councils as is currently the case.
Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s new commitment that no councils in Tasmania will be forced to amalgamate with their neighbours is a welcome development in a Local Government Review process that has stoked community concern and a widespread campaign to protect the integrity of local government representation and planning decision making.
PMAT Media Release: Government Commitment on Council Mergers a Welcome Relief Read More »
The Rockliff government’s surprise decision to create legislation that gives developers the option to bypass local councils as the decision maker on planning applications represents a weakening of planning rules and sidelining of the democratic process.
PMAT Media Release: Removing Democracy and Communities from Planning Decisions Read More »
Planning Matters Alliance are continuing the rollout of public community meetings to discuss mooted changes to local government, including forced amalgamations and the removal of planning from local Councils.
PMAT Media Release: Local Government Reform for Discussion in Northwest Tasmania Read More »
