The following principles underpin your Streamlining the Town Planning Permit Process:
• Strategic basis – your proposal addressing schemes and clear express a strategic vision. And policy basis approach.
• Clear and consistent – Standard provisions apply across the State and expressed. And having your application address these in the form required. By council to highlight clear and consistant information.
• Transparent – Rationale for policy, requirements and planning decisions. Consents on your appliation made transparent.
• Third party involvement – Public consultation and engagement by affected people. In the formation of town planning schemes, in assessing development. And in reviewing decisions.
• Timeliness – An assessment process that does not delay consideration of proposals. And this has highlighted by councils as the main cause of delays. By applications not submitted with all the information required.
• Improvement – Streamlining the Town Planning Permit Process Planning schemes and processes reviewed by council. We are aware of these and the impact on your project.
• Single point of assessment – One person coordinates necessary referrals and notification. And determines the application process and follows it through council.
• Tailored assessment – Different levels of assessment dependent and independant on complexity. And impact of proposal.
• Independent review of decisions – Opportunity for planning permit decisions to reviewed by an independent body, VCAT.
