Councillor Don Palmer Providing Local Leadership & Working for You

D-Day or PDC-Day beckons as PDI Act 2016 commences

D-Day, or should I say PDC-Day has been confirmed as March 19. It heralds the arrival of the new Planning & Design Code, complete with its anomalies, errors, and omissions. PDC-Day (March 19) is the date the State Planning Commission has set for the launch of the...

Now is the Hour when we must lodge our representation.

Indeed! Now IS the hour when we must lodge our representation. Our representation on the current draft of the new Planning & Design Code.   If we don’t then we must forever accept the result. Of what might happen next door to you.   In my August blog on the...

Planning & Design Code rethink

The recent ministerial shakeup within the State Government has caused a Planning & Design Code rethink. Not just the timing of implementation of the Code, but a rethink of the structure and polices within the Code. After the multiple ministerial resignations,...