October 6, 2015
Objecting #101
Posted by gleneira under Councillor Performance, GE Planning, GE Service Performance[4] Comments
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October 6, 2015 at 9:52 AM
Good advice to know your planning scheme and look for inconsistencies.
Trouble is that advice only applies to municipalities with a sound planning scheme and is therefore not applicable to Glen Eira.
Glen Eira’s planning scheme is full of inconsistencies and lacks the basic planning tools (eg. structure plans and various overlays) and any substantiation. All Glen Eira has is a lot of planning staff.
October 6, 2015 at 3:01 PM
Shame that the vcat person gives such a poor example. Sos and backlash do have it right. The more objectors then the chances for council rejecting goes up meaning no cost to objectors unless they want to hire their own experts. Good advice to check the plans. I’d love a dollar for every application that somehow manages to miscalculate.
October 6, 2015 at 9:58 PM
The problem with these articles is they suggest that people haven’t won in planning appeals because they haven’t done things properly. I don’t want to sound negative but in Glen Eira even if you do your homework and know a lot about the planning scheme and spend weeks upon weeks on submissions to put forward a strong, logical well argued case the chances are you won’t win.
October 7, 2015 at 8:21 AM
Because Glen Eira has a crap planning scheme, knows it and is unwillingly to do anything about it.
Sure VCAT deserves some blame but VCAT judgement after VCAT judgement shows that their review of the Glen Eira Planning Scheme yields so many inconsistencies between Clauses, Clauses that are ill defined and useless in their own right and an absence of the appropriate planning tools used by other Councils eg. Structure Plans, Neighbourhood Character Statements. Other than to constantly blame VCAT, Council has done absolutely nothing for years and years to shore up their fundamentally flawed planning scheme.
Take a look around, not every permit application goes to VCAT yet every permit goes through Council and is supposedly “assessed” against the planning scheme. How many times does Council approve an application because “if we don’t the outcome could be worse” – what’s that tell you about their belief in the quality of their planning scheme.
Also consider what happens when VCAT does over turn a Council decision. Does Council, who knows what’s best for municipality and the consequences of the VCAT ruling, do anything to mitigate the impact. Hands up anyone who can point to traffic management treatments being installed or restricted parking be introduced.