Public Forum on Planning & Development Law Changes - Redfern

With the drastic changes to the NSW Planning currently on exhibition REDWatch and ARAG (Alexandria Residents Action Group) are holding a:

PUBLIC FORUM ON PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT LAW CHANGES

• The planning system is changing and many more developments are proposed for the inner city.

• Your current right to comment on DAs will be removed for 80% of developments including many high-rise.
• Developers are happy but are you?

Come and hear about how these changes will affect and how to have your say!

Monday 27th May, 6:30pm Redfern Town Hall,73 Pitt St Redfern

Guest Speakers

• Nature Conservation Council
• Better Planning Network
• Ron Hoenig MP, ALP Member for Heffron
• David Shoebridge MLC, Greens planning spokesperson
• Brad Hazzard, Planning Minister (invited)

This meeting follows a well-attended meeting on the Planning Green Paper last year and it aims to help people in the community get an early understanding of the issues raised by the White Paper and the Draft Legislation (they differ in some key respects).

The Metropolitan Strategy creates priorities for ‘Global Sydney’

The Global Sydney Precincts are shown below including Central to Eveleigh (including parts of Redfern, Chippendale, Waterloo and Alexandria) where the Strategy proposes to “support strategic renewal of this highly accessible corridor”.

Please spread the word of this forum as the new system proposes to take away key protections in the current planning act. This includes precautionary principles and residents rights to comment on Development Applications in up to 80% of developments. The new planning system proposes instead that the community will be involved in preparing the regional and local planning controls years in advance of developments and will no longer need to comment on most developments in their area because they had the opportunity to have their say in regional planning!

Please download the poster to advertise this important meeting - Public Forum on Planning & Development Law Changes - Redfern Poster .