Tasmanian state parliament will debate divisive legislation to establish development assessment panels when it returns this week. While backers of the bill say it would take the politics out of planning by involving independent bodies, councils have slammed the state government for rushing consultation and sidelining them.
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00:00Plans to fill this vacant block with 40 units that are yet to materialise are the perfect
00:07example of why planning reforms needed, according to the State Government.
00:12It's now going ahead because it met the scheme.
00:14The problem under the existing rules is that it's taken four years of legal action for
00:19it to actually get to this point.
00:21Legislation to create development assessment panels will be introduced and debated in Parliament
00:26this week.
00:27The bodies would see local councils sidelined from planning decisions in some cases.
00:32If they're compliant with the local provision schemes that council sets out and agrees to,
00:37then these projects will be delivered with certainty.
00:41Consultation on a draft bill finished just days ago, but it felt more like confrontation.
00:46Councils say the bill's an overreach, removing the community's voice.
00:50Concerns dismissed by the Premier as grandstanding and self-interest.
00:54I think it makes a mockery of having consultation if you have it open for five weeks and then
01:00within a number of days introduce the legislation.
01:03Dean Winter says Labor supports the proposal in principle, but wants to see the final bill
01:07tabled by Felix Ellis.
01:10He's been attacking local government, trying to create fights.
01:12He's been sort of like the Donald Trump you order from Wish.
01:16He has been a very, very poor advocate for this policy.
01:20He needs to decide whether he's going to back in pro-jobs legislation, pro-housing legislation.
01:27Support that could be vital for DARPs to become law.