The probe – focused on housing affordability, sustainability, heritage, green wedges and planning controls – received more than 260 submissions before being indefinitely delayed.
A parliamentary committee will recommend the inquiry is picked up next term.A full parliamentary inquiry into the Victorian planning system has been shelved, angering property and heritage groups desperate for reform.
Labor does not control the planning and environment committee, which features three government MPs out of 10 members. It is not publicly known which members were present for the decision to delay the inquiry. “Regrettably, debate on such a vital issue as heritage has been postponed because the government doesn’t want to provide residents with a means to point out such widespread failure,” he said. “This is a government which fears public participation. If ever such an inquiry was needed, it is now.”
Deputy committee chair Clifford Hayes, from Sustainable Australia, shared the frustration of industry groups and advocates. He said the make-up of the next Parliament and its support for the inquiry was not guaranteed, and the committee should not be waiting for the election to pass.
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