Environment
How can this be possible and who is the winner?
Under the current “Rural Zoning” the winners are certainly not the Building Industry!
1. A man with a practical knowledge of air conditioning and skilled sheet metal worker, after several unsuccessful attempts to gain permit to build a home on his land (6.19Ha) zoned Rural Resource, has now used his savings to set up a Motor Home and is leaving Tasmania. His skills and knowledge are now lost to our State.
No building opportunity here!
2. The couple reported in the press on May 11 2009 to have spent $40,000 trying to obtain a Permit to rebuild a house that was burned down on a piece of land 1614 square meters. No success.
No building opportunity here!
3. The seniors reported in the press on June 17 2010 on land of 7Ha are still unable to update their kitchen or make the changes necessary to have an internal toilet installed.
No building opportunity here!
4. A young man who has recently gained his accreditation as a builder has been refused a permit to build on land held by his parents.
No building opportunity here!
Just a few examples of what seems to be a much more extensive problem.
Could be interesting to ask for a sworn valuation on lands where building permits are held to be not appropriate. Maybe your Council is still collecting rates at the values established prior to the current zoning coming into effect.
So what was the real purpose and motivation for this P.A.L. Policy with it’s Rural Zoning afterthought?
Hopefully the following extract from the West Tamar Planning Scheme 2006 does not reveal any hidden agenda.
PART B OF THEIR RURAL RESOURCE ZONE, Page 13-1 says:
13.1.3 para f) Support for plantation forestry and related timber sector activities to ensure a broad based timber sector.
13.1.3 para g) Support for plantation forestry which enables more productive use of the rural land resource within the context of minimising the potential adverse effects of plantations on the landscape.
What would a reasonable adult think, given the circumstances described above?
Be interesting to know who were the original signatories to the original documents which finally passed through our both Houses of Parliament.
Earlier on Tasmanian Times: