{"id":426,"date":"2006-05-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"liberalplanningpolicyreleased2006election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2006\/05\/01\/liberalplanningpolicyreleased2006election\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Planning Policy released (2006 election)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today (1\/5\/2006) the Liberal Party (Vic) released their Planning Policy. Download it!<\/a> <\/p>\n

SOS Analysis<\/h2>\n

Overall, we are impressed with key core parts of the policy, particularly the commitment to appoint a statutory, independent, Board of Review to completely review Melbourne 2030.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starting with the high level summary, with the italics being our comments –
\nKey features of the policy include:<\/p>\n

  • A full-time Minister;
    \n SOS agrees, planning is too important to only have a Ministers attention part time – a key problem with the present and last two planning ministers.<\/strong><\/em>
    \n\n <\/li>\n
  • Withdrawal of the flawed strategy ‘Melbourne 2030’;
    \n SOS agrees – while still committed to many of the ‘principles’ in M2030, in practice the implementation is so flawed we need to start again with a statutory and transparent process that guarantees the inclusion of input from the community and independent experts.<\/em><\/strong>
    \n\n<\/li>\n
  • Development of a Metropolitan Growth Strategy which has the confidence and support of all;
    \n SOS agrees – and while it would be difficult to get the confidence and support of all, the new Strategy must be a process which transparently balances key issues while also meeting basic principles of democracy, residential amenity, and environmental sustainability.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • Restoration of longstanding designated Growth Areas;
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups<\/strong><\/em>.\n <\/li>\n
  • Local decision making;
    \n SOS agrees, councils should have control over town planning matters but be more accountable (via reform of VCAT).<\/em><\/strong> \n <\/li>\n
  • Investment in the protection and upgrading of Green Wedges and Public Open Space;
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/li>\n
  • A reduced role for the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) and a fair go for councils;
    \n SOS agrees in principle to this, but does not agree to the detailed proposal in this paper<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong> VCAT should be a court of law, with powers to oversight council process, but not (as present) being able to take over the role of the planning authority<\/strong><\/em> .
    <\/strong><\/em>\n <\/li>\n
  • A more accountable, integrated and consistent system of Heritage protection
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/li>\n
  • Help to upgrade strata title properties.
    \n Not within the SOS terms of reference .
    \n <\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today (1\/5\/2006) the Liberal Party (Vic) released their Planning Policy. Download it!<\/a> <\/p>\n

    SOS Analysis<\/h2>\n

    Overall, we are impressed with key core parts of the policy, particularly the commitment to appoint a statutory, independent, Board of Review to completely review Melbourne 2030.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Starting with the high level summary, with the italics being our comments –
    \nKey features of the policy include:<\/p>\n

  • A full-time Minister;
    \n SOS agrees, planning is too important to only have a Ministers attention part time – a key problem with the present and last two planning ministers.<\/strong><\/em>
    \n\n <\/li>\n
  • Withdrawal of the flawed strategy ‘Melbourne 2030’;
    \n SOS agrees – while still committed to many of the ‘principles’ in M2030, in practice the implementation is so flawed we need to start again with a statutory and transparent process that guarantees the inclusion of input from the community and independent experts.<\/em><\/strong>
    \n\n<\/li>\n
  • Development of a Metropolitan Growth Strategy which has the confidence and support of all;
    \n SOS agrees – and while it would be difficult to get the confidence and support of all, the new Strategy must be a process which transparently balances key issues while also meeting basic principles of democracy, residential amenity, and environmental sustainability.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • Restoration of longstanding designated Growth Areas;
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups<\/strong><\/em>.\n <\/li>\n
  • Local decision making;
    \n SOS agrees, councils should have control over town planning matters but be more accountable (via reform of VCAT).<\/em><\/strong> \n <\/li>\n
  • Investment in the protection and upgrading of Green Wedges and Public Open Space;
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/li>\n
  • A reduced role for the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) and a fair go for councils;
    \n SOS agrees in principle to this, but does not agree to the detailed proposal in this paper<\/u>.<\/em><\/strong> VCAT should be a court of law, with powers to oversight council process, but not (as present) being able to take over the role of the planning authority<\/strong><\/em> .
    <\/strong><\/em>\n <\/li>\n
  • A more accountable, integrated and consistent system of Heritage protection
    \n SOS needs more detail on this topic, and input from other community groups.<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/li>\n
  • Help to upgrade strata title properties.
    \n Not within the SOS terms of reference .
    \n <\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statepolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}