{"id":1600,"date":"2014-11-12T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T01:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2014-12-01T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:06:39","slug":"we-need-to-talk-about-planning-survey-of-election-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2014\/11\/12\/we-need-to-talk-about-planning-survey-of-election-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"We need to talk about Planning &#8211; Survey of election candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community groups across Victoria have joined together\u00a0to survey candidates on the conduct and direction of Planning in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>The Survey was drafted by SOS with input and support from\u00a0a wide range of groups. These include some of our smallest newest residents groups and also\u00a0long standing state wide groups like Green Wedges, Protectors of Public Lands, Planning Backlash and the Public Transport Users Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Survey asks about local issues and key\u00a0issues of concern including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The need for VCAT reform and better protection of local amenity<\/li>\n<li>Whether we have a failure of independent, long term infrastructure planning<\/li>\n<li>Failure to secure the Urban Growth Boundary and Green Wedges<\/li>\n<li>Whether the increasing deregulation and privatisation of planning is in Victoria\u2019s interest<\/li>\n<li>Whether Victoria has \u2018an inappropriate culture of undue influence and political opportunism\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Whether candidates support reform of political donations laws<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The survey results will published early November and will be used to inform voters, particularly in marginal seats.<\/p>\n<p>Further Inquiry &#8211; See survey and media release attached<br \/>\nIan Wood\u00a0 \u00a0(President, Save Our Suburbs) 0424 104 274<br \/>\nAnn Birrell \u00a0(Vice-President, Save Our Suburbs)\u00a0 0419 550 538<br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"mailto:info@sos.asn.au\">info@sos.asn.au<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Candidate-Survey-on-Planning-issues-10-October-2014.pdf\">Candidate Survey on Planning issues 10 October 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Media-Candidate-Survey-10-October-2014.pdf\">Media Candidate Survey 10 October 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victorian Environment and Planning Community Groups, including:<\/p>\n<p>Save our Suburbs<br \/>\nGreen Wedges Coalition<br \/>\nProtectors of Public Lands<br \/>\nPlanning Backlash<br \/>\nPublic Transport Users Association<br \/>\nRatepayers Victoria Inc<br \/>\nSave Albert Park<br \/>\nYarra River keepers Association<br \/>\nDocklands Community Association<br \/>\nResidents Against Inappropriate Development in Doncaster<br \/>\nFitzroy Residents Association<br \/>\nWest of Elgar Residents Association<br \/>\nEast Enders<br \/>\nWestern Region Environment Centre<br \/>\nAppropriate Development for Boronia Group<br \/>\nDarebin Appropriate Development Association<br \/>\nCitizens for a Liveable Melbourne<br \/>\nMoreland Planning Action Group<\/p>\n<p>Please contact SOS at if you wish to be included as a a supporting organisation\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@sos.asn.au\">info@sos.asn.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community groups across Victoria have joined together\u00a0to survey candidates on the conduct and direction of Planning in Victoria. The Survey was drafted by SOS with input and support from\u00a0a wide range of groups. These include some of our smallest newest residents groups and also\u00a0long standing state wide groups like Green Wedges, Protectors of Public Lands, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statepoliticians","category-statepolitics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}