Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:47): (1763) My matter is for the attention of the Minister for Planning, and it relates to the Charter 29 report Victoria’s Planning System 2025: Reforming the Reforms. Michael Buxton and a series of very eminent planners have put forward a number of proposed solutions to the government’s authoritarian approach to planning, which has been adopted across the state. I am drawn particularly to page 10, which is a set of overlays that look at the merging of these large districts, area by area. I note that it is largely in my electorate of Southern Metropolitan Region, and that is what has drawn my specific attention to this today. I am asking: is the Minister for Planning prepared to meet with Charter 29 – perhaps me as well, but Charter 29 in this instance – to discuss their proposals and the matters that they have uncovered through their report?