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ABC Interview: LGAT president says Tasmanian government to blame for bad planning legislation and it’s ‘their job to fix it’
Listen on ABC Mornings to Local Government Association Tasmania (LGAT) President, Mick Tucker, speak to the consequences of DAPs.
Mercury Opinion Piece: New planning scheme will bypass councils and stop locals from deciding what goes on in heir own areas
The [Tasmanian] government seeks to remove community voices on land use, writes Allison Ritchie.
Mercury Opinion Piece: Developers favoured over public interest
The Tasmanian government’s proposed DAP process is clearly aimed at providing an avenue for developers and their proponents to circumvent the well established local government
Mercury Opinion Piece: Council anger at planning reforms
Greater Hobart Mayors unite to propose development assessment panels
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.
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
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.
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
Mercury Opinion Piece: 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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