“There have been a few very large controversial developments stopped recently, kunanyi/Mt Wellington cable car, Cambria development near Swansea and several high-rise buildings in Hobart. It appears they [the state gov] want 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. 

If an assessment isn’t going their way the developer can abandon the standard local council process at any time and have a development assessed by a planning panel.”