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Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Development Assessment Panels

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Minister, I have a couple of questions about your attempt to move planning out of council processes into so‑called development assessment panels. I know you have a healthy slogan for this, and the example you gave recently I don't think was a very good one. It was a development that was opposed, I think, or voted against by the council members, not because it's a development, because they were all pro‑development councillors that voted against it. I think they voted against it because of the type of development.

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Planning documents
Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – State of the Environment

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Minister, on the State of the Environment report, obviously it was well over a decade late and your government missed two statutory reporting cycles before getting this one going and tabled. The Planning Commission asked for an extra two months to finish the State of the Environment report from June to the end of August. What was the reason for the delay and does it point to the fact that the Planning Commission needs additional funding for staff to continue its role reporting on the State of the Environment report functions and requirements into the future?

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Parliament House, Tasmania
Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Kangaroo Bay

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I've got some planning questions, specifically about Chambroad and Kangaroo Bay. Chambroad's hotel development proposal in Kangaroo Bay is still before the Supreme Court over a land ownership dispute. The minister, Michael Ferguson, ruled out a major project status for this project because he believed it didn't have the grounds. Given that the legal matter is still not yet resolved, do you agree any move towards an assessment as a major project is inappropriate?

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Planning documents
Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Short-Stay Accommodation

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I want to just talk about short‑stay accommodation. It's clear that short‑stay accommodation is driving down vacancy rates across the state and it's making it hard for Tasmanians to afford housing. You promised to introduce a 5 per cent levy on short‑stay accommodations. Could you explain to the committee the progress that's been made in introducing this? And is it just about revenue‑raising or is it a real approach to try and solve some of the housing issues?

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Aerial view of houses in the suburbs
Sep 2024 17

Planning Strategies

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Long term strategic planning has been something that the state does not do well. The government does not invest in strategic planning the way that it should. It delays and under‑funds at every turn.

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Planners around a table looking at planning documents
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