Item 28 Subject: Notice of Motion: Plannng Principles

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This motion received the support of the Greens and John Stamolis. However, Labor put up a wateredown foreshadowed motion to write to Minister in general terms in regard to the Design and Place SEPP.


Anna Harvey spoke on Pedestrian Safety and the Planning Principles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aj_Gq3Jh6k&t=2102s

 

That Councilas requested by the Total Environment Centre, write to the Premier regarding the outrageous behavior of his Minister and demand that the Minister:

  1. Continue to develop the Design and Place SEPP with its crucial environmental safeguards for present and future urban populations with gazettal by mid 2022;
  2. Ensure that best practice is achieved (and is not discretionary) for cooler suburbs and buildings, green space, net zero, BASIX, tree canopy retention and expansion with deep soil needs, electric vehicle ready apartments, and resilience to killer urban heat, fire and floods;
  3. Factor community health, sustainability and biodiversity protection into economic reviews of new policies, taking account of the long term impacts and benefits;
  4. Require net zero emission statements and objective and credible data (not greenwash from developer consultants);
  5. Achieve waste minimisation and water efficiency; and
  6. Increase our canopy cover the Inner West to address the heat island effect, reduce the emissions from our dwellings into the future and ensure the safety of life and property, the assistance of sympathetic State Planning Instruments is vital.
    Background

    The Design and Place SEPP, incorporating BASIX, underpins our Local Planning instruments and improves the requirements for new or modified housing to be more sustainable.

    On the 14 March Minister Roberts revoked the Ministerial Direction giving effect to the Minister's Planning Principles: “Minister for Planning and Minister for Homes Anthony Roberts today announced he had discontinued the Minister's Planning Principles to ensure focus remained on the government's priority of delivering a pipeline of housing supply.” https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/News/2022/Minister-planning-principles

     

    TEC asks us to Send a message to the NSW Premier and Minister for Planning

    “Sydney needs to be built on the principles of environmental sustainability – with green spaces, more trees, cooler suburbs, thriving natural ecosystems, walkability and achieving climate action.

     

     

    But now the Minister for Planning, Anthony Roberts, at the behest of the developer lobby, has ditched crucial principles brought in by his predecessor to make the city greener and healthier for its citizens (see SMH article below).

     

     

    Next in their sights is the Design & Place SEPP (briefing below) supported by a wide variety of planning experts, NGOs and local councils, which would govern decisions building by building, precinct by precinct - delivering a liveable environment. It's the most important environmental reform to planning and the future of your city and town, in decades.”

    https://www.tec.org.au/dont-let-developers-wreck-sydney-now-and-in-the-future

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