Over two weeks after the Federal Government ‘accepted’ the Macquarie Point Precinct Master Plan, it still hasn’t been released to the public for scrutiny. Given the plan was supposed to be completed in June 2025, the Greens call on the Liberals to be transparent with Tasmanians about the stadium and prescient-wide development plans and release the Master Plan.
After ignoring the advice of its own expert planning body and progressing the stadium anyway, the Liberals have created a Master Plan for the stadium site. The Federal Government recently announcing that it had accepted both the Macquarie Point Precinct Master Plan and the Housing Plan.
But Tasmanians are still in the dark about exactly what is in the site Master Plan. The Housing Plan, such that is it, has been released, but not the Master Plan. What is the holdup?
According to Minister Abetz, the Master Plan sets out the vision for the stadium precinct and the long-term strategy to develop the site. But it’s being withheld from the public, nine months after it was due.
Given the Tasmanian Planning Commission raised a number of significant issues and potential problems with the Liberals’ plan to dominate the site with a stadium, Tasmanians deserve to see the Master Plan for themselves.
The expert panel clearly concluded that the stadium would ‘not support or promote integrated urban renewal’ on the site, but Minister Abetz disagreed. The Master Plan is his chance try to demonstrate why and it will be telling to see if the experts’ concerns have been considered.
