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Urban Taskforce | Policy Agenda
Fact Sheet - Airport noise 22-02-12 - Planning for aircraft noise v2
22 February 2012
Contour maps identifying the areas affected by the operations of airports have the potential to dramatically impact on land values and development potential of
land.
Fact sheet: Limiting retail floor space
26 February 2011
A wide variety of planning controls are used to heavily limit the supply of retail floor space in our communities.
Fact sheet: Mandating active streetscapes
26 February 2011
Ground floor uses should not be limited to non-residential uses. vThis may create a row of empty shopfronts and sap urban vitality away.
Fact sheet: More affordable housing
26 February 2011
Owning your own home is the great Australian dream. Home ownership delivers a wide range of economic and social benefits both to home owners and the communities in which they live.
However, Australia has been experiencing declining levels of home ownership for some time.
Renters have been suffering too. They are the first to feel the pain, as rents rise rapidly when there is a housing shortfall.
Fact sheet: Politics and planning
26 February 2011
The modern planning system arose, in part, as a response to protests and civil disobedience campaigns of the 1970s.
The planning system attempted to create a more ordered system to take into account the publics opinion of new development proposals.
