RED ALERT!!!
Very important – submissions needed please before 5pm 3rd June.
Proposed NSW Community Participation Plan.
NSW Labor and the Liberals have teamed up again this time to attack your right to community consultation on local development applications.
Thrilled by their latest success in December that will entirely strip your local Councillors of any powers to determine development applications, they are now trying to cut the community out too.
Under their new proposed Community Participation Plan a development application won’t be publicly advertised for comment if it apparently meets all the planning controls, whether it’s the house next door or a high rise.
The problem is that planning controls can be open to interpretation and arguable, eg bulk and scale, visual impact, privacy, environmental impact or even hazard risk impacts. That’s why we have consultation.
Community knowledge is invaluable to ensure communities and environments are not significantly affected by developments.
Fast tracking development assessments by this gagging of our democratic rights is being justified by the housing crisis.
Yet successive NSW governments have done nothing to reign in the extensive land banking practices that have choked Tweed’s major land release areas for decades. Tweed’s land release areas would have provided homes for more than 30,000+ extra people by now if the developers had been made to build them.
Please make a submission only available via the NSW planning portal link below by 5pm 3rd June.
PS Don’t bother with their weirdly worded survey – make a submission instead.
Feel free to copy all or any part of the following submission document:
