Thursday, 15 May 2025

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:46): Much talk in this chamber this week has been on the planning amendments that force high-rise, high-density into our suburbs. My question to the Minister for Planning relates directly to that. VC257, VC267, VC276 and GC252 are key planning amendments that seek to implement the government’s forced high-rise, high-density decision-making into councils and into communities, overriding councils and overriding communities. But the minister – and we heard this in transcript, and I well understand the way the planning amendments work – is provided with a background and information which enables her to make an informed decision about whether to use section 20, part 4, as she has done in a number of these cases. But information that she has used to arrive at these decisions should be in the public domain. We have asked for it through the process, and I ask her to release that information.