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 »
Deputy Premier and Minister for Planning Michael Ferguson for a quiet little policy to water down Tasmania’s planning laws so that ‘certain development applications’ would not be considered by local councils, or potentially subject to public appeals, but determined by Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) instead. The minister hasn’t talked about this much lately, despite a 400-strong public meeting held last week by a very concerned Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania.
Opinion Piece: “The All You Can Eat Porky” by Danielle Wood Read More »
A State election is being held on 23 March 2024 for all House of Assembly seats. Of the 167 candidates announced by the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, PMAT managed to obtain email contact details for 160. The remainder did not have email details provided. Only 25 candidates completed the survey. The survey was open from Sunday 3 March 2024 until midnight Saturday 9 March 2024.
State Election Candidate Survey Results on DAPs 2024 Read More »
PMAT Media Release: Plan to come to #ScrapTheDAP public meeting 2024
PMAT Media Release: Plan to come to #ScrapTheDAP public meeting Read More »
Tasmanian nature conservation organisations with decades of experience working to create and protect world heritage areas, national parks and other reserves have united to urge election candidates to ‘Scrap the DAPs’ for reserved land.
06 March 2024
1:10 pm
Hobart Town Hall
#ScrapTheDAP
#ScrapTheDAP Public Meeting – 06 March – 1.10pm – Hobart Town Hall Read More »
“More than 200 submissions called on the JDAP to reject the proposal by WA Police to build a four-storey district police centre in the buffer of the world heritage listed Fremantle Prison, which will involve destroying a section of convict-built wall built in the 1850s.”
Herald Journal Opinion Piece: ‘JDAP Ignores 220 Submissions’ Read More »
“Local planning panels were created to stamp out corruption, but councillors from across the political spectrum say they favour developers and undermine democratic accountability.
Liberal mayors have joined Labor and Greens councillors in criticising the NSW planning system.”
