The Victorian government should be looking elsewhere if it wants to fix the glacial pace of planning, not at councils.
City of Melbourne’s deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece lambasted the rumoured state government's planning takeover in a Future Melbourne Committee meeting recently following a question from a constituent.
“If the Victorian government was looking for some areas to reform in the planning system, it would do well to look at the duplication that currently exists,” Reece said.
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