Planning Democracy has designed this questionnaire to help its network of concerned community groups understand where you and/or your party stand on using the Planning Framework to give communities a genuine say in protecting Victoria’s environment, heritage and natural resources.
PLANNING DEMOCRACY
A PRE-ELECTION QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PARTIES AND CANDIDATES
Dear State Election Candidate or Planning Spokesperson,
Victoria’s Planning Framework aims to, “provide for the fair, orderly, economic and sustainable use and development of land”.
Planning Democracy has designed this questionnaire to help its network of concerned community groups understand where you and/or your party stand on using the Planning Framework to give communities a genuine say in protecting Victoria’s environment, heritage and natural resources.
- Please respond to these community group and citizen perceptions:
1 Since 2014, thirty-eight amendments to the Planning Framework have removed permit requirements and/or removed requirements to meet planning scheme provisions. These amendments have eroded the rights of communities set by the Planning and Environment Act to participate in planning decisions.
2 The Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into Protections within the Victorian Planning Scheme was suspended by State Government through purported lack of time. The ‘Inquiry into the protections within the Victorian Planning Framework’ was published as an interim report on 2nd August 2022.
3 This Plan was produced in response to a 2018 election pledge to better protect Melbourne’s Green Wedges and Agricultural Land. It is complete but confined to the Planning Minister’s ‘desk’ for the past 12 months.
2. Do you think the use of the planning framework is achieving its objectives?
Please add further comments here:
Your name please:
Party & Position:
Please return this questionnaire to: [email protected]
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The PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT ACT 1987
Section 4: OBJECTIVES
(1) The objectives of planning in Victoria are—
(a) to provide for the fair, orderly, economic and sustainable use, and development of land;
(b) to provide for the protection of natural and man-made resources and the maintenance of ecological processes and genetic diversity;
(c) to secure a pleasant, efficient and safe working, living and recreational environment for all Victorians and visitors to Victoria;
(d) to conserve and enhance those buildings, areas or other places which are of scientific, aesthetic, architectural or historical interest, or otherwise of special cultural value;
(e) to protect public utilities and other assets and enable the orderly provision and co ordination of public utilities and other facilities for the benefit of the community;
(f) to facilitate development in accordance with the objectives set out in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e);
S. 4(1)(fa) inserted by No. 47/2017 s. 5.
(fa) to facilitate the provision of affordable housing in Victoria;
(g) to balance the present and future interests of all Victorians.
ABOUT PLANNING DEMOCRACY
Planning Democracy (PD) is an informal network of 80 community groups across the Greater Melbourne region committed to protecting our heritage, open space, tree canopy cover and to giving residents a genuine say in planning issues.
PD aims to support these communities with shared information, news, tactics and encouragement. To do this, PD publishes a monthly newsletter and hosts occasional live forums.
Contact Planning Democracy about this questionnaire by calling Ian Morgans on 0400 872 193
Or by email: [email protected]
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