DAPs - HobartNotHighrise.com.au

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Ugly Highrise Building.
Banned by Hobart City Council.
Could easily be passed by a DAP (Development Assessment Panel).

Representation against proposed Development Assessment Panels (DAPs)

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I oppose the Draft Land Use Planning and Approvals Amendment (Development Assessment Panels) Bill 2025 and ask the Tasmanian Parliament to vote against DAPs for the following reasons:
Takes Councils and Communities out of planning, with elected Councillors having no say on developments.

Appeals to the planning appeals tribunal (TASCAT) will be prohibited.

Removes merits-based planning appeals which increases the potential of corruption, reduces good planning outcomes, favours developers, and undermines democracy.

DAPs eligibility criteria are broad and underdefined.

A large number of small-scale developments could meet DAPs criteria.
Increases complexity in an already complex planning system by creating two planning systems.

Poor justification, there is no problem to fix.

No significant changes have been made between the November 2024 DAPs Bill (as voted down by the Parliament) and the current November 2025 DAPs Bill as the key flaws are not addressed.

The DAPs eligibility criteria remain largely unchanged as already rejected by Parliament.

I request that this legislation be rejected.

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