Plantation Planning -
Planning Scheme reviews- now on , but only just
For those concerned about things that are not well planned in the district, ( like dairy land conversions) there is still time to make submissions to Your Shire.
The common tendency to try and STOP THINGS at Appeal is very reactive,expensive and unreliable. There are better ways to get well planned landscape change . However it seems some sound method planning lessons will to have to be repeated before best practice is back on the to do today list: best practice is not always the latest new idea !!!
A better way than fighting nimby LIKE, is to map areas and make sure independant advice is provided to council BEFORE decisions get to far down the road.
What's old is new again
This is largely what the CEO of colac shire means when she talked recently about the importance of a new idea called preapplication consultaTion---new to some anyway.
The problem is that this important job, while it was done constistently up until a few years ago is no longer happening, even it had been for the first thirty years of our conservation departments history.Maps and GIS are "more imp"??? who knows?
Speak up and make history by making history lessons less critical .
As a matter of interest , I started the first GIS liasson group in 1991. Five shires and the State rep was involved . The blurb made a point I wanted the other planners to be ready for --from their managers - that mere maps would largely only remind us how little we knew;( even now the latest maps I have produced used over 110 layers and they were still elementary in impact on decisionmaking determinants ) biodiversity and risk planning maps were plain dangerous in the hand of non integrators . You only had to watch how administrators easily abused the risk maps I produced for Lorne district in 1984 .
The big question In the last fifteen years , have we learnt how to best use process and better use maps . Don't ask me, unless you want the short answer.
For those concerned about things that are not well planned in the district, ( like dairy land conversions) there is still time to make submissions to Your Shire.
The common tendency to try and STOP THINGS at Appeal is very reactive,expensive and unreliable. There are better ways to get well planned landscape change . However it seems some sound method planning lessons will to have to be repeated before best practice is back on the to do today list: best practice is not always the latest new idea !!!
A better way than fighting nimby LIKE, is to map areas and make sure independant advice is provided to council BEFORE decisions get to far down the road.
What's old is new again
This is largely what the CEO of colac shire means when she talked recently about the importance of a new idea called preapplication consultaTion---new to some anyway.
The problem is that this important job, while it was done constistently up until a few years ago is no longer happening, even it had been for the first thirty years of our conservation departments history.Maps and GIS are "more imp"??? who knows?
Speak up and make history by making history lessons less critical .
As a matter of interest , I started the first GIS liasson group in 1991. Five shires and the State rep was involved . The blurb made a point I wanted the other planners to be ready for --from their managers - that mere maps would largely only remind us how little we knew;( even now the latest maps I have produced used over 110 layers and they were still elementary in impact on decisionmaking determinants ) biodiversity and risk planning maps were plain dangerous in the hand of non integrators . You only had to watch how administrators easily abused the risk maps I produced for Lorne district in 1984 .
The big question In the last fifteen years , have we learnt how to best use process and better use maps . Don't ask me, unless you want the short answer.
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