Our organisations do support legislation to make the RAA process a statutory process to address a range of existing problems we have been raising for over eight years.What our organisations are calling for is a transparent statutory process for assessment of developments in National Parks and Reserves, that includes merit-based planning appeal rights.
Public comment was invited between 11 January – 9 March 2024. We thank the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania for allowing PMAT to lodge our submission on the 10 April 2024.
Submission Guide: Scrap the State Government’s Development Assessment Panel (DAP) for National Parks and Reserves #ScrapTheDap
“The Proposed Development Assessment Panels are a massive step backwards for Tasmania’s transparency and democracy.” The Mercury.
Opinion Piece: Planning Shift Takes Away Voice of Communities Read More »
The Tasmanian Government is currently consulting over the scope of issues to be considered in the statutory review of Tasmania’s State Planning Provisions (SPPs).
PMAT today welcomed the decision of the Local Government Association of Tasmania (LGAT) to reject a motion seeking to investigate removing planning decisions from councils and to have councils replaced by ‘independent’ expert panels.
Media Release: LGAT Decision a Welcome Rejection of Another Push to Weaken Planning Read More »
The RAA process governs the Parks and Wildlife Service’s assessment of proposed developments on approximately 50% of Tasmania, so it’s essential the process is robust.
Premier Hodgman often repeats his mantra that his government’s call for Expressions ofInterest (EoI) in tourism developments in Tasmania’s parks and reserves provides a rigorous and transparent process for their assessment (e.g. media release Backing in sustainable nature tourism, 19 March 2019). However, the reality is that rather than utilising a well-defined, rigorous and transparent process which guarantees public comment and appeal rights, it is taking advantage of an absence of such a process.
In August 2017 Sophie Underwood from Planning Matters Tasmania joined three other panelists at a Tasmanian Leaders Conference to talk about ‘disruptive development’ and how to engage rather than polarise community views.
Tasmanian Leaders Conference – Disruptive Development Read More »
