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Greater Sydney to Report to Premier

The Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, today announced that the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) will be reporting through the Department of Premier and Cabinet to the Premier – rather than to the Minister for Planning.

“Strategic planning and the coordination of land use planning and infrastructure is finally being recognised as a core government agenda with the joining of GSC reporting to the Premier” commented PIA NSW President Jenny Rudolph.

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Question mark over regional growth strategies: PIA responds to NSW State Budget

The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has applauded the NSW State Government’s response to cost-of-living issues and infrastructure pressures in Tuesday’s Budget, but questioned the lack of follow-through on implementing regional growth strategies.

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Planning is part of the solution to housing affordability – not the problem, PIA says

The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has welcomed economist Peter Abelson’s assessment that interest rates are a more important determinant of capital city house prices and rents than the number of new houses built.

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Canberra’s first ‘pop-up’ Pocket Park opens on Lonsdale Street, Braddon

Canberra’s first Pocket Park was launched last weekend in Lonsdale Street, Braddon, by the Planning Institute of Australia’s ACT Young Planners.

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Federal Budget strong on infrastructure spending, but where’s the overarching National Settlement Strategy?

The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) has welcomed the Turnbull Government’s Budget commitment to lifting infrastructure spending – particularly for projects aimed at boosting rail and freight movements in our larger cities.

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Imagination, innovation, and energy the hallmarks of PIA’s 2018 National Planning awards

A Queensland radio show altering popular perceptions about planning, a renewable energy framework that promises to take the heat out of contentious wind-farm proposals in NSW, and ambitious projects to re-energise country towns in South Australia and Western Australia have received three of Australia’s top planning awards.

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Parramatta Road transformation strategy celebrated at 2018 National Awards for Planning Excellence

The Parramatta Road Corridor Urban Transformation Strategy has been honoured twice   at the Planning Institute of Australia’s National Awards for Planning Excellence – winning the Best Planning Ideas Large Project Award and the Hard Won Victory Award.

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NSW Chief Planner saluted at 2018 National Awards for Planning Excellence

Garry White –  whose work has been characterised by his boss, NSW Planning Minister Anthony Roberts, as inspirational – has won this year’s Planner of the Year Award.

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James Thoem: the go-to man for cities wanting to create more bicycle-friendly streets

In the 1960s, Copenhagen’s streets were clogged with cars, road projects were being proposed to run through some of the city’s most beautiful districts, and traffic fatalities and pollution were becoming a concern.

Now, 45 per cent of commuters coming into the Danish capital on any given day ride a bicycle. And over 60 per cent of people in the city proper travel to work or school by bike.

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PIA to showcase Australia’s best planners and planning projects in Perth

Australia’s capital cities regularly make the top 10 of surveys comparing the world’s most liveable urban environments – testament to the ability of our planners to deliver places that help satisfy people’s social, economic and environmental aspirations.

The most outstanding examples of their work in 2017-18 are being celebrated on 9 May at the Planning Institute of Australia’s National Awards for Planning Excellence in Perth.

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