planning reforms

Wednesday, September 23

Management team gutted in new Planning Dept exodus

EXCLUSIVE | Almost the entire leadership of the State Government’s delayed e-Planning rollout has resigned in recent days as bureaucrats stage a mass walkout from a project the responsible agency insists remains on track.

Devil in the detail of planning reforms

An enormous, high-level overhaul of SA’s planning system is underway, but a recent document containing highly detailed specifications has industry worried we’re heading in the wrong direction.

Houses on Adelaide's suburban fringe. Photo: Nat Rogers/InDaily

SA planning policies make housing unaffordable

Continuing our debate on urban sprawl, Wayne Matthew from the Demographia think tank argues that South Australia’s restrictive planning system is locking many people out of the housing market.

Property sector urges MPs to back "no-brainer" reforms

The state’s property sector is on board with John Rau’s revised infrastructure funding model, and has intensified its lobbying of MPs ahead of a crucial vote that will redesign South Australia’s planning regime.

"We're nearly there": Rau lobbies crossbench on planning reform

Planning Minister John Rau has stepped up his campaign to convince key cross-benchers of the merits of proposed planning reforms in a bid to revive his stalled bill when parliament resumes next week.