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01 September 2010
Identifying the problems and proposing solutions. A submission by the Urban Taskforce to the Productivity Commission in response to its issues paper: Performance Benchmarking of Australian Business Regulation: Planning, Zoning and Development Assessments.File Size:
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23 August 2010
A planning system that gives consumers more choice, lower prices and better service. An Urban Taskforce submission to the NSW Government in response to the exhibition of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Competition) 2010. 23 August 2010File Size:
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07 July 2010
The Central Sydney Planning Committee/City of Sydney is responsible to the most significant area of urban land in Australia. While it covers just 26 square kilometres the economic activity generated in the City of Sydney is approximately $80 billion, representing 8 per cent (nearly one-twelfth) of the total national Australian economy, over 30 per cent of the Sydney metropolitan area and almost one-quarter of the GDP of the entire state of NSW.File Size:
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01 June 2010
How to re-boot the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy. A submission to the NSW Department of Planning's Metropolitan Strategy Review and a response to the discussion paper Sydney Towards 2036.
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21 May 2010
.... and extending the reach of heritage laws into lounge rooms everywhereThis is a submission to the NSW Department of Planning paper Potential Amendments to the Standard Instrument March 2010.
Regretfully, we are very critical of the great bulk of the proposals in this document. With only a few exceptions, it seems that these proposals have been prepared on the assumption that the NSW planning system is suffering from a lack of regulation and detailed prescription.
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26 March 2010
If the Department keeps heading in its current direction, the best we can hope for is that the whole Standard Instrument process will merely be a waste of time. On the other hand, under the current policy settings, it seems more likely that the Standard Instrument will be used to increase and entrench the micro-regulation of land use across NSW. This was never the original intention.File Size:
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16 October 2009
We do not support the proposed severe restriction on car parking.File Size:
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30 September 2009
We are strong advocates for the development of more land for employment-uses in Western Sydney. This region is crucial if the employment needs of Sydney are to be satisfied.File Size:
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31 August 2009
These two documents, as currently conceived, will further complicate the development assessment process. They will increase the emphasis on box ticking, at the expense of a genuine evaluation of the individual merit of development applications.File Size:
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