The planning cultures of Australia. A brief list.
NSW planning culture is ‘you must demonstrate compliance with each and every clause in a full report’ ‘unless you know the password [wink]’. Victorian planning culture is that you commission a consultant to make you a report, which gets assessed by another consultant, and QA is undertaken by a third consultant, which is the most efficient way, according to Jeff Kennett. Western Australians and South Australians lay the explosive charges first and challenge anyone to object in court. In the Territory there are no rules of any kind, and may God and the US Marine Corps have mercy on your soul. In Queensland it seems you fill out a form and nobody reads it. I don’t know how Canberrans do things but it probably involves lanyards and classifying people in hierarchy by a hex code.
@Su_G I know nothing about Tasmania, but I understand assessment of development is done by the RAAF in an F-111 reconnaissance flight
@liamvhogan I don’t know how it’s done in Canberra either. But when I was a Minister (not for planning), a company not based here asked me to ensure their latest Canberra development project was approved and the $12m in fees to change the land zoning was waived.
(I declined their request, so they dobbed on me for being unhelpful to my party leader, who also ignored them.)
@emmadavidson @liamvhogan did you report them to ICAC?
@ThermiteBeGiants @emmadavidson the oppressed peoples of Canberra do not enjoy the privilege of living under the guidance of NSW’s anticorruption governance framework, but will welcome us as liberators
Many are asking about Tasmania in this list. Unfortunately town planning as a discipline and common task of citizenship implies mass literacy, and that is a step that remains in the future for the Tasmanians
@liamvhogan in Western Australia, we don't know why the heritage listed stables burnt down, so we may as well build a car park in their place.