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Labor vows more planning reform.
(From Canberra Times)
Labor has vowed to start a second wave of reforms to the ACT's planning laws to create a simpler system and ensure all new houses meet energy and water efficiency targets.
Labor's planning policy, issued by Planning Minister Simon Corbell yesterday, would aim to cut red tape and streamline the process for approval of new developments.
Mr Corbell said that to encourage the revitalisation of Civic and the major town centres, developers in those areas would no longer be required to undertake a preliminary environmental and social assessment, nor pay a charge to change the purpose clause of an existing lease.
The policy would continue Labor's strong reforms since being elected in 2001, he said.
''A second-term Stanhope Labor Government would continue reform by making the development- assessment system easier to understand and more efficient.'' The Land Act 96 - the ACT's ''most complex'' piece of legislation - would be amended to make it simpler, he said.
Mr Corbell hoped to have amended legislation ready by August next year, after extensive community consultation. In the 2004-05 ACT Budget, $1million was allocated for the review process.
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