{"id":535,"date":"2011-10-04T04:56:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"update-ministerialadvisorycommitteereviewofplanninginvictoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/2011\/10\/04\/update-ministerialadvisorycommitteereviewofplanninginvictoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Update – Ministerial Advisory Committee Review of Planning in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many organisations, individuals and groups have made submissions to the Review, and some (including SOS) were invited to discuss their issues with the committee in person.  Our submission (<\/span>click here<\/a>) <\/em>was a summary of our overall concerns and we are doing a follow-up submission after being encouraged to do so at our meeting with the committee in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the 6-member committee are undoubtably experts in their field (mostly with extensive background in the development industry and\/or the planning department), they clearly only represent one aspect of a multi-faceted debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where are the independent experts in traffic and public transport, strategic planning, urban design, environmental sustainability, health and sociology?  Where is the deliberative community consultation process so that feedback from <\/span>informed residents <\/span>can be incorporated into the new City Plan?<\/span><\/p>\n

Are we planning for a complex city that can meet the sustainability challenges of peak oil, climate change, population and energy and water conservation; or are our planners just focussed on a simplistic numbers game of providing enough boxes for increasing numbers of people to "live" in? <\/span><\/p>\n

However, since the Premier's department is actually preparing the overall strategic plan for Melbourne rather than just the planning minister (see Age article<\/a>), perhaps there is still hope that a sustainable plan with vision will eventuate…. <\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about <\/span>"deliberative community consultation", click here<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many organisations, individuals and groups have made submissions to the Review, and some (including SOS) were invited to discuss their issues with the committee in person.  Our submission (<\/span>click here<\/a>) <\/em>was a summary of our overall concerns and we are doing a follow-up submission after being encouraged to do so at our meeting with the committee in September.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the 6-member committee are undoubtably experts in their field (mostly with extensive background in the development industry and\/or the planning department), they clearly only represent one aspect of a multi-faceted debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where are the independent experts in traffic and public transport, strategic planning, urban design, environmental sustainability, health and sociology?  Where is the deliberative community consultation process so that feedback from <\/span>informed residents <\/span>can be incorporated into the new City Plan?<\/span><\/p>\n

Are we planning for a complex city that can meet the sustainability challenges of peak oil, climate change, population and energy and water conservation; or are our planners just focussed on a simplistic numbers game of providing enough boxes for increasing numbers of people to "live" in? <\/span><\/p>\n

However, since the Premier's department is actually preparing the overall strategic plan for Melbourne rather than just the planning minister (see Age article<\/a>), perhaps there is still hope that a sustainable plan with vision will eventuate…. <\/span><\/p>\n

To find out more about <\/span>"deliberative community consultation", click here<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\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":[24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalplanning-24","category-public"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","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=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sos.asn.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}