PMAT's Submissions & Submission Guides

Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT) helps individuals and community groups engage with Lutruwita/Tasmania’s planning system. From our detailed submissions to government we produce free step-by-step community guides to make it easier for community voices to shape the planning decisions that affect their towns, communities, and natural environments.

PMAT’s submissions are a key way we engage and collaborate with the public, State and Local politicians, the media, academics, Alliance Member Groups, and relevant industry and professional bodies. Through this work, we shine a light on the critical role land use planning plays across Lutruwita/Tasmania — from environmental protection and cultural and Aboriginal heritage, to sustainable development and urban biodiversity.

Image of Macquarie Point by the Tasmania government
Submission

PMAT & TCT Submission: Draft Macquarie Point Planning Permit Bill 2025

PMAT and Tasmanian Conservation Trust (TCT) believe it is important to express our concerns regarding the proposed legislation, before it is released, to each member of the Tasmanian Parliament. The State Government has made false assertions about the need for the ‘enabling legislation’ and is expected to unnecessarily rush the legislation through the Tasmanian Parliament.

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16 June 2025
Hobart suburbs with a wide range of architectural styles
Submission

PMAT Submission: Housing Land Supply Amendment

The key proposed change outlined in the draft Bill aims to alter the process set out in theHousing Land Supply Act 2018 to speed up the rezoning of public land (Crown land andHomes Tasmania land) for social and affordable housing.PMAT does not support the proposed process change to the Housing Land Supply Act 2018 for the following reasons outlined in our submission.

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6 March 2026
Heritage Housing Sandy Bay, Hobart
Submission

PMAT Submission: Housing Land Supply Amendment Bill 2021 

While the Tasmanian Government is arguing that the crisis in availability of social and affordable housing can be addressed– at least in part – through the Housing Land Supply Amendment Bill 2021 it is important to look at the broader context of the problem. Some of the factors contributing to the shortage of affordable housing relate to policy settings controlled at the State level, but many others arise from long term national approaches to taxation, financial policy, investment and population growth.

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3 September 2021
Hobart Town Hall
Submission

PMAT Submission: Local Government Electoral Reform

PMAT’s submission on the two draft bills released for public consultation for a 13-week consultation period until Saturday 28 February 2026:1. A new, standalone Local Government Electoral Bill 2025 for future council elections2. A Local Government Amendment (Electoral Reforms) Bill 2025, delivering a number of reforms to the Local Government Act 1993 supporting the broader elections framework.

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2 March 2026
Improving Residential Standards in Tasmania, Draft Report July 2024 and associated Medium Density Design Guidelines:
Hobart suburbs with a wide range of architectural styles
Submission

PMAT Submission: Improving Residential Standards in Tasmania, Draft Report July 2024 and associated Medium Density Design Guidelines 

PMAT’s founding platform seeks to improve the liveability and wellbeing of all Tasmanians.
One of PMAT’s founding concerns was the poor residential standards of the State Planning Provisions. This concern was shared by the Local Government Association of Tasmania who resolved in 2018 to write to the then Minister for Planning Peter Gutwein to request a review of the State Planning Provisions for residential standards.

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16 September 2024
Loic Le Guilly image of Hobart
Submission

TasPIN: Improving Residential Standards in Tasmania, Draft Report 2024

TasPIN understands the push for increased density in our residential zones, cities, suburbs, and townships. However, this must not be at the expense of what matters for Tasmanians and future proofing for climate change. Character, sense of place, climate resilience, quality design and building, housing choice, affordable housing, and retaining the comparative advantage ofTasmania: all these are critical as the planning reforms push for increased density.

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6 September 2024
Launceston on the River Tamar, Tasmania.
Submission

Plan Place: State Planning Provisions Review

Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania, in their platform seek to improve the liveability and wellbeing of all Tasmanians, has engaged Plan Place Pty Ltd to prepare a submission to the State PlanningProvisions (SPPs) 5-year review concerning the following zones:General Residential Zone (GRZ), Inner Residential Zone (IRZ), and Low Density Residential Zone (LDRZ).

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19 August 2022
Heritage Housing Sandy Bay, Hobart
Submission

PMAT Submission: GHD SURVEY Residential Standards Review

The standards that are resulting in for example in an unreasonable impact on residential character and amenity and remove a right of say over what happens next door to home owners. People’s homes are often their biggest asset but the values of their properties can be unduly impacted due to loss of amenity. This also impacts on people’s well-being.

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1 July 2020

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