What's New
3 May 2012
We are of the view that the draft plans should seek to balance land uses, not assume that one use is more important than another. Planning should seek to ensure that all types of land use are appropriate, whether it be agriculture or mining.
26 April 2012
The Urban Taskforce Australia congratulates Transport for NSW on undertaking this Masterplan in a comprehensive and detailed manner. Our submission will concentrate on areas where we believe the property industry is most involved and on areas where we believe further action is needed.
30 March 2012
The Parramatta Road corridor is a challenging redevelopment proposal. All would agree that there is potential and a desperate need to renew this corridor of land.
26 March 2012
Submission to
The Hon. Brad Hazzard MP
Minister for Planning and Infrastructure
Minister Assisting the Premier on Infrastructure NSW
14 March 2012
The Urban Taskforce Australia has been approached by a number of our members expressing concern over the potential impact of the Draft National Airports Safeguarding Framework on development around airports. For over 30 years the ANEF system has defined where noise sensitive development should occur and state planning authorities and local governments have zoned land to allow urban consolidation to occur. Submission is available here
MacroPlanDimasi report Appendix Maps
CBRE report 1; report 2; report 3
Wilkinson Murray report
Gadens report
22 March 2012 - Reply from Mr Sam Haddad Director-General, NSW Department of Planning & Infrastructure is here.
2 March 2012
The Taskforce submission on the planning review includes a detailed submission focussing around the need for the planning system to be based on a presumption for growth is available here and a shorter submission that highlights the 10 key ideas that the Taskforce believes will help get the state back to being number one again is available here.
24 February 2012
The Urban Taskforce has taken the review of SEPP 65 and the Residential Flat Design Code as an
opportunity to look at the importance of this building type to accommodating a significant proportion
of the states population growth over the next 25 years. This is particularly so in metropolitan Sydney
where around 500,000 new apartments will be required by 2036.
21 February 2012
The Urban Taskforce represents the development industry and the large number of jobs that spin off development. While the media often portrays a conflict between development and communities we believe this has been exaggerated to the point that it is having a detrimental effect on the economy on New South Wales. One way to see this negative effect is the fact that while NSW represents 33% of the population of Australia we only represent 24% of building activity. In the 10 years up to the 2000 Olympics NSW represented 27% of the national GDP. In the 10 years since the Olympics our share of GDP has dropped to 14.5%.
15 February 2012
The Urban Taskforce has made many submissions to councils and the NSW Department of Planning
and Infrastructure expressing concern with the way that standard instrument local environmental
plans are being drafted.
14 November 2011
The Urban Taskforce has reviewed the exhibited Box Hill and Box Hill Industrial draft Precinct Planning Package and provides the following comments for your consideration. Our issues of concern relate primarily to the:
- urgent need to reduce development levies;
- deferral of the special infrastructure contribution increases;
- impact of fractured ownership on lot production;
- overly prescriptive nature of development control plans; and,
use of the NSW Housing Code rather than a different set of standards
