Local councils outraged over powerful new planning laws, say they'll be 'almost irrelevant'

abc.net.au/news/walga-mcgowan-planning-property-development-reforms-stoush/102013134Local councils say new planning laws will make them "almost irrelevant", with the McGowan government reducing their control over the look of suburbs and towns across Perth and WA.

The government announced major reforms on Wednesday that would hand greater powers to centralised administrative panels to consider the approval of property development. Premier Mark McGowan argued the proposal would help deliver more housing at more affordable prices by circumventing "anti-development" councils.But local councillors, and the WA Local Government Association , said a better balance needed to be struck.Want more local WA news?

No one ever really asked WA folk whether we wanted a workforce driven population boom to help the Chinese vicariously strip our iron ore etc. within decades, when it should last centuries. It's wrecking our lifestyle, suburban ambience, fishing freedoms and the environment.

No one ever really asked existing WA folk whether we wanted a workforce driven population boom to help the Chinese vicariously strip our iron ore etc. that should last centuries within decades; wrecking our lifestyle, suburb ambience, fishing freedoms and environment.

We need an end to developers drip feeding new housing units to reduce the housing crisis. Regulatioms should require them to be brought on at the same time to reduce prices.

Can’t wait for this to happen in Victoria. The council rep acknowledged there was a bottleneck: a prime example of red tape, council members’ excessive power in refusing applications that meet criteria. This is long overdue.

One must question the connectivity between the $1000 bottles of red wine, which was drunk at parties Mark attended with his property developer mates and this move to take control of future building projects. ;)

Good

Good..

This is an attempt to side step community concerns and amounts to an erosion of local democracy. That erosion should be kept to a minimum and is not appropriate in these circumstances.

Abolish all councils…a corrupted layer of government that is unnecessary in a tech age

Based

Local councils are irrelevant

developers are corrupting Labor in WA

Bad move to disempower local residents in favour of developers profits.

This is a trojan horse. Looks good (councils are power stooge total dorks mostly that block everything over stupid petty stuff) but it's the 'McGowan RED COMMO STATE gateway to central control, where locals will lose all say in what happens to where they live. BEWARE...

Good news then. Pick up the bins fix the pot holes water the gardens maintain the basketball courts and stop all the staff earning 18% super

Local councils are almost irrelevant already and almost nobody respects them.

They are saying that like its a bad thing

Maybe ripping all of our iron ore out of the ground in mere decades and immigration fuelled population growth of about 300,000 a year isn't the work of geniuses after all. Don't complain about increased development if you continue voting for Labor/Greens or Liberal/Nationals.

I agree, councils have made themselves irrelevent due to woke bullshit

Good. Local councils have shown a consistent refusal to allow for the new housing that Australia needs.

Abolish councils, problem solved.

LOL, I think Mark is an arrogant bully, but it's no big deal. I live in Nsw anyway, and obviously, most sandgropers like him. But if this is true, then I say, We'll done Mark. Any law that almost makes councils irrelevant is a good thing. 👍

sounds good, councils need to have their powers stripped down to the bare minimum of providing services. planning needs to be central to deliver desperately needed housing. how NSW and Vic follow suit

And by default, communities snd the people who live in them, irrelevant too.

Developers and mining corps own our politicians

Water wars and 15 min cities. It’s a coup

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