The government’s proposed Planning Reform Bill is likely to cause heated debate. The principal features of the reforms are to deregulate aspects of the planning system, to speed up decision-making, to provide a new planning process to deal with major developments, and to reform planning gain. Planning was reformed quite radically in 2004 so some parliamentarians may be surprised at the government’s decision to implement a second wave of reforms to quickly.
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