The Mercury: Cloud Hanging Over Protection Of Our Coasts
“Developers and the community
will face a peacemeal system with
no consistency from one municipality
to the next.”
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State Coastal Policy
PMAT Submission: State Coastal Policy draft amendment 01-2025
PMAT’s submission in response to the Position Paper, the Tasmanian Planning Commission released the State Coastal Policy draft amendment 01-2025 for public comment between 30 June and 25 August 2025.
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The Mercury: Sun, Sea and Scepticism
“At a time where we should be thinking more about how and where we build, this will most likely increase the risk to buildings in the coastal zone. It will have implications around liability for local councillors, rate payers, and also implications for the insurance sector around insurability and potentially increase premiums.”- Sophie Underwood, State Director Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania
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PMAT Submission Guide: State Coastal Policy draft amendment 01-2025
In response to the Position Paper, the Tasmanian Planning Commission released the State Coastal Policy draft amendment 01-2025 for public comment between 30 June and 25 August 2025. PMAT created a submission guide to help the community comment.
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ACS Submission: Review of the State Coastal Policy – Development of Actively Mobile Landforms Position Paper
Australian Coastal Society (Tasmania) Submission on Review of the State Coastal Policy – Development of Actively Mobile Landforms Position Paper.
PMAT Submission: Coastal Policy Position Paper 2024
PMAT Submission: Review of the State Coastal Policy – Development of Actively Mobile Landforms Position Paper
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PMAT Submission Guide: Coastal Policy Position Paper
PMAT released a community submission guide to comment State Coastal Policy Position Paper. Public comment closed 21 October 2024.
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Take Action for Tasmania’s Coasts: Make a Submission
The Tasmanian Government has released a State Coastal Policy Position Paper, seperate from the Draft Validation State Coastal Bill 2024, for public comment to fast-track changes to Tasmania’s State Coastal Policy. The proposed changes to Tasmania’s State Coastal Policy will profoundly weaken the Policy and the way coasts are managed and protected in Tasmania.
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Mercury Opinion Piece: Plea to consider view on coastal policy changes
Most submissions are against draft laws, write Peter McGlone, Sophie Underwood and Eric Woehler. Published in The Mercury 18 September 2024.
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Media Release: Tasmanian community overwhelmingly rejects proposed retrospective changes to State Coastal Policy
With just over 400 submissions made in the briefest of public comment periods, 97% of submissions received by the Tasmanian Government were opposed to the proposed retrospective changes to the State Coastal Policy.