What's New
15 June 2012
It is encouraging to note that the Government acknowledges that there is general concern with the impacts of compulsory acquisition of private land and in this regard, the Urban Taskforce welcomes this review.
4 May 2012
The Urban Taskforce has reviewed the draft policy statement - Plan-making and delegations (the draft policy statement) and provides the following comments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 October 2011
There needs to be an anti-NIMBY provision. Narrowing of state significant development categories is not appropriate. Rail corridor should be defined. There is an absence of transitional provisions for existing applications before the joint regional planning panels. There are problems with the provision related to staged development and joint regional planning panels.
26 September 2011
An appeal right for rezoning applicants is a key interim reform strongly sought by industry. An applicant should be entitled to make, and have determined, a development application (including a ˜concept staged development application) even if the development is prohibited by a statutory plan.
