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A Resident's Introduction to Planning - Prof Peter Phibbs - 13 Mar 2012

Is planning speak a fog to you? Do you want to know how building designs are determined? How the Planning system works? Find out who decides what. Find meaning in all that jargon - terms like like DA, LEP, DCP, Master Plan, SEPP etc. Find out how residents can influence planning decisions.

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When

Mar 14, 2012
from 08:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Where

Redfern Community Centre – 29 Hugo Street, Redfern

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Contact Phone

(02) 8004 1490

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REDWatch has arranged for Professor Peter Phibbs*, a leading academic who runs a course at University of Western Sydney on Planning for Non-Planners, to run an introductory session for residents.

This two hour session is open to everyone. It has been been funded by a Project Local grant from Central Magazine.

You can download a post / flyer for this forum at Planning Basics for Residents - Tuesday 13th March 2012 Poster.

Venue: Redfern Community Centre, Tuesday 13th March 2012 5.30 pm for 6 pm start - two hour session

 

*Peter Phibbs B.A. Hons, MSc, PhD UNSW

Peter is a social economist/planner with a special interest in the potential of economic tools to generate sustainable outcomes and the need to balance economic and social concerns in urban affairs. After teaching urban planning at the University of Sydney for twenty years he has taken up a position as in the new Urban Research Centre at UWS as the Co-ordinator of Academic Programs. He is a specialist in economic impact assessment and his latest research has been in the area of affordable housing. He has a BA (Hons) and MSc and a PhD from the University of NSW.

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