The Fifth Estate –
Firstly, the Urban Taskforce is not advocating for throwing out the planning system with its checks and balances. Merit based assessment based on strategic and site-specific analysis is fundamental to the planning system. Local controls are important, but were never meant to apply to each and every site – that is why SEPP 1, which allowed for flexibility based on a merit assessment) was introduced (now applied through Cl 4.6 of the Standard LEP instrument).
