Statewide Planning Scheme

The Government has expanded what is permitted in all our National Parks and Reserves, has taken away appeal rights and limited public comment. It is totally undemocratic. For example, if RACT were to submit their Development Application after the new State-wide Planning Scheme has come in, then we could all comment on it, but there is no legal requirement to take account of comments and we could not appeal the decision.

Essentially, there is a train wreck coming and most Tasmanians have no idea.

We need to escalate the campaign to place pressure on the Government to ensure our planning system is democratic.

Watch this space.

RACT

The RACT petition is still live. This is only because we have not had a formal response from the Tasmanian Government regarding changes to the Freycinet National Park Management Plan. We are anticipating that the Government response will be favourable but we won’t know for sure until a formal announcement is made. We are not sure when that will be. Watch this space.

Just FYI, RACT has dropped a second tourism proposal, which was submitted through the Expression of Interest Process, for a development south of Macquarie Harbour.

COLES BAY FERRY PROPOSAL

There is a proposal (not yet submitted to Council) for a ferry service between Dolphin Sands and Swanwick.

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Freycinet_Update_Sep_2016.pdf
Sophie Underwood