❓ Mr. Jacob asks about the effects and rollout plans for the Approvals and Related Reforms (No. 4) (Planning) Bill 2009. Mr. Day outlines the bill's key features and implementation timeline, including development assessment panels and strategic planning instruments.
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approvals and related reforms (no. 4) (planning) bill 2009 — IMPLEMENTATION
The Approvals and Related Reforms (No. 4) (Planning) Bill 2009 has passed through Parliament now. Can the minister please outline the effects of this bill and the plans for the rollout of the reforms? Mr J.H.D. DAY
The Approvals and Related Reforms (No. 4) (Planning) Bill 2009 has passed through Parliament now. Can the minister please outline the effects of this bill and the plans for the rollout of the reforms? Mr J.H.D. DAY
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I thank the member for the question. The passing on Tuesday night last week of the bill to which the member referred was certainly a major step forward in the reform of the planning system in Western Australia. It means that we will have a planning and approval system that is much more contemporary and modern and that is able to respond to the growth pressures that Western Australia is facing and the continuing need to have responsible economic development in this state, which is in the long-term interests of the community. To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. The passing on Tuesday night last week of the bill to which the member referred was certainly a major step forward in the reform of the planning system in Western Australia. It means that we will have a planning and approval system that is much more contemporary and modern and that is able to respond to the growth pressures that Western Australia is facing and the continuing need to have responsible economic development in this state, which is in the long-term interests of the community. To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
I thank the member for the question. The passing on Tuesday night last week of the bill to which the member referred was certainly a major step forward in the reform of the planning system in Western Australia. It means that we will have a planning and approval system that is much more contemporary and modern and that is able to respond to the growth pressures that Western Australia is facing and the continuing need to have responsible economic development in this state, which is in the long-term interests of the community. To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. The passing on Tuesday night last week of the bill to which the member referred was certainly a major step forward in the reform of the planning system in Western Australia. It means that we will have a planning and approval system that is much more contemporary and modern and that is able to respond to the growth pressures that Western Australia is facing and the continuing need to have responsible economic development in this state, which is in the long-term interests of the community. To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
I thank the member for the question. The passing on Tuesday night last week of the bill to which the member referred was certainly a major step forward in the reform of the planning system in Western Australia. It means that we will have a planning and approval system that is much more contemporary and modern and that is able to respond to the growth pressures that Western Australia is facing and the continuing need to have responsible economic development in this state, which is in the long-term interests of the community. To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
To briefly summarise, the bill provides the ability to establish development assessment panels, which will ensure a more effective and efficient approvals process for development applications for significant urban, industrial and infrastructure developments, and it significantly extends the use of existing strategic planning instruments, such as improvement plans and improvement schemes in planning control areas, so that we can further strengthen state and regional planning across Western Australia. There is also in the bill a mechanism for ensuring that state planning policies are incorporated in local planning schemes and a provision to streamline and clarify the existing provisions to improve the efficiency of the approvals process generally. I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
I welcome the expressions of support that have been made by organisations, including the Property Council of Australia, the Master Builders Association of Western Australia, the Western Australian branch of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, and the Western Australian branch of the Planning Institute of Australia. I also welcome the constructive input that the Western Australian Local Government Association has made. In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
In relation to the timing of the implementation of the bill, there is a need to complete the preparation of regulations regarding development assessment panels. That process is underway, and I expect those regulations to be gazetted in the early part of 2011. Consultation is going on with the business sector and also the WA Local Government Association on the finalisation of those regulations. Development assessment panels will then be able to be established to take effect in the first half of next year. I hope it will be as early as possible in the first half of next year, but a lot of work still needs to be done, including training and setting up the administrative procedures. The other parts of the bill will come into effect most likely when they are proclaimed in November this year. I expect that the ability to more effectively use improvement plans and improvement schemes and to require state planning policies to be included in local planning schemes and the other provisions will take effect in November this year.
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