• Return Planning democracy to NSW, by allowing true consultation, and giving planning power back to local councils: The people should decide, not a Planning Dictator!
• End big developer donations to political parties: We want planning decisions based on merit, not on money!
• Save our property rights: Provide just compensation for loss of land, income or amenity, and for change of land use.
• End forced urban consolidation- allow sensible land release, with infrastructure funded by the government: Dump the failed planning policies, designed to favour big developers rather than the community.

GIVE NEW SOUTH WALES BACK TO THE PEOPLE!

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Sustainable Living
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Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 2007 - January, 2007
"In fact, the evidence shows that virtually all of the increase in housing prices has been due to the ... shortage of land. Land prices have skyrocketed" pg 14

Tom McKenna Memorial Lecture" by Bob Day AO, National President of the Housing Industry Association - October 2005
"the most devastating of the unintended consequences has been the extent to which this urban consolidation policy has stifled land supply and sent land prices through the roof."

Pipe Dreams: The Shortcomings of Ideologically Based Plannnning, People and Place Vol 13 no 2 - December, 2005
"Quantitative prediction is noticeably absent from the new urbanist and smart growth planning policies being implemented"

Comments on Discussion Paper - Sydney Greater Metropolitan Region - December, 2004
"Our investigations reveal that the benefits claimed by State Government spokesmen for densification policies are spurious or minimal"

Planning Our Suburbs - sound policies or fads - ABC Radio National Ockham's Razor program (1st Feb, 2004)
"Space provides us with a quality of life that makes Australia the envy of the world, but this wonderful attribute is being stolen from us"

Urban Consolidation - sound policy or fad - National Trust presentation (25th Feb 2004)
What the evidence shows...

Battle to save our peaceful way of life - Daily Telegraph article (20th Feb 2001)
"We all like to think of our suburban residential streets as our haven from the relentless pressures of big-city living"

Time to end the big squeeze - Sydney Morning Herald article (6th Oct 2000)
"Urban consolidation is taking too high a toll on the beauty and amenity of Sydney's suburbs"

Dictatorship of the high density bullies - Sydney Morning Herald article (14th Jan 2000)
"Bureaucratic dictates threaten to turn beautiful Sydney into a city of shades of grey"

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