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#SCRAPTHEDAP. Scrap Development Assessment Panels (DAPs)

Media Release: Proposed planning laws are anti-democracy, anti-transparency and will be catastrophic for ordinary Tasmanians

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“The Government has brought back this highly contentious Bill, despite 92% of the almost 500 submissions received on the first version of the anti-democratic Bill in 2024 were opposed. The DAPs Bill was so flawed, every council in Tasmania voted against it and it was voted down in the Legislative Council on the last sitting day of Parliament last year,” said Sophie Underwood, State Director of the Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT).

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Media Release: Latest attack on our planning appeal rights is anti-democratic & removes the community’s voice

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The major changes to planning appeal rights announced on 7 February 2025 by Minister for Planning, Felix Ellis, will impact every single Tasmanian by taking away community rights and preferencing property developers over the community.

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Mercury Article: Appeals Block in Third Party Appeal Process. Published 08 Feb 25.

Mercury Article: Appeals Block in Third Party Appeal Process

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The latest attack on our planning appeal rights by the Tas Government is anti-democratic & removes the community’s voice. In the Mercury on 08 Feb 2025, Felix Ellis said the major changes to appeal rights will stop “anti-everything organisations” from objecting. In reality, it strips away public oversight, leaving communities powerless against bad developments. Property developers will retain their rights to appeal planning decisions but the general public won’t.

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ABC News: Tasmanian government fails to pass development assessment panels bill, which tries to bypass councils

ABC News: Tasmanian government fails to pass development assessment panels bill, which tries to bypass councils

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Independent Murchison MLC Ruth Forrest said while she supported the principle of development assessment panels, the government had failed to consult properly with councils.”What I’ve heard very clearly from my local government areas, from LGAT and from a number of other stakeholders, [they] are quite concerned about the process,” Ms Forrest said. “It’s a matter that really needs to have community engagement in a really meaningful way.”The other thing that’s missing … is an appeals process,” she said.

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