All the issues raised in PMAT’s 2023 submission on the Position Paper on a proposed DevelopmentAssessment Panel (DAP) Framework still stand. The Tasmanian Government has failed to take into account any of the concerns raised by PMAT.
PMAT Submission: Draft LUPA Amendment (Development Assessment Panels) Bill 2024 Read More »
Felix Ellis’s Bill to remove individual planning decisions from local [Tasmanian] government is a real worry, writes Peter Boyer.
Mercury Opinion Piece: Lessons to learn blurring lines of private and public Read More »
PMAT released a community submission guide to help comment on the Draft LUPA Amendment (Development Assessment Panels) Bill 2024. Public comment closed 12 November 2024.
PMAT Submission Guide: Draft LUPA Amendment (Development Assessment Panels) Bill 2024 Read More »
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 local communities and will take our voice away.
“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.”
Mercury Article: Draft [DAP] bill is ‘cataclysmic’ Read More »
It appears they want [the state government] 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.
The Tasmanian Government is planning on pushing through legislation to empower the Planning Minister to remove assessment and approval of developments from the normal local council process and have it done by Development Assessment Panels (DAPs). The Planning Minister would also have new powers to instruct councils to commence planning scheme changes, but perversely, only when a local council has rejected such an application.
Informative piece on DAPs published in The Mercury 07/11/24. Writers include Anja Hilkemeijer and Dr Phillipa McCormack who spoke at PMAT’s #SCRAPTHEDAP Public Meeting last year.
Mercury Opinion Piece: Bill diminishes critical checks and balances Read More »
An open letter to Jeremy Rockliff by an ex-planning commissioner, Catherine Nicholson on the ineffectiveness of development assessment panels.
Letter to the Editor: Development panels costly and ineffective Read More »
The independent panel members [DAPs] are generally pro-development and pro government of the day. They are anything but independent or apolitical.
Examiner Opinion Piece: Will panels undermine local councils? Read More »
