Issue No. 107 Issue new planner June 2016 the journal of the New South Wales planning profession Council Amalgamations | Western Sydney Airport Job satisfaction in planning | Regional planning White Bay Peninsula Walkway and Ferry Wharf EMM is a leading planning and environmental Residential Apartments at George’s Cove Marina consultancy. The firm is distinguished by consistent high quality work, integrity and commitment to our clients. We provide urban & regional, social and transport services. Goulburn Health Hub Brett McLennan Sydney 02 9493 9500 Louisa Carter Brisbane 07 3839 1800 planning | environment | acoustics | ecology | heritage| groundwater |soils, closure, rehab | gis www.emmconsulting.com.au 2 | JUNE 2016 | newplanner CONTENTS This issue New Planner is the journal of the New South Wales (NSW) planning profession. The Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) publishes New Planner in March, June, September and December each year. The Journal provides a forum Executive Officer’s Report 4 for news, opinion and the exchange of ideas on urban and regional planning in NSW and abroad. President’s Message 5 CONTACT PIA NSW From the Minister 6 Suite 404, Level 4, 32 York St, Sydney NSW 2000 T: 02 8904 1011 E: [email protected] Planning Perspectives 8 New Planner E: [email protected] W: www.planning.org.au/news/new-planner-nsw In the Courts 9 CONTRIBUTIONS Interview with Lucy Turnbull 10 The Editors welcome contributions to New Planner in the form of articles, opinion pieces, letters, reviews and news items. Please download the contributor guidelines from: Council Amalgamations 12 www.planning.org.au/news/new-planner-nsw Scenic values in NSW 14 NEW PLANNER EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Managing Editor Alice Strömstedt PIA (Affiliate), Architectus New Planner Survey Results 2016 16 Associate Editors Shona Porter PIA (Graduate), City of Canterbury-Bankstown Job satisfaction 18 [Lead Editor, June 2016 Issue] Elle Clouston MPIA, HillPDA Food on the Fringe 20 Camille Lattouf MPIA, Architectus Rose Saltman MPIA, RM Planning Laura Wynne PIA (Student), UTS Everyone hates DAs 21 Editorial Advisor Andrew Wheeler PIA (Affiliate), UNSW Australia Western Sydney Airport debate 22 SUBSCRIPTIONS New Planner is only available to PIA members. What is a Smart City? 24 To become a member visit: www.planning.org.au/membershipinformation PlannerTech 25 COVER IMAGE Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43) Piet Mondrian NSW Young Planners 26 Mondrian’s last painting was directly inspired by the vitality of Healthy Built Environments 28 New York City and the tempo of jazz music. The asymmetrical distribution of the brightly colored The Inbox 29 squares echoes the varied pace of life in the bustling metropolis. 30 Museum of Modern Art, New York Snippets DESIGN Harostan Press International Pty Ltd T: 0409 900 111 E: [email protected] Stay up to date with the latest news from The views expressed in New Planner are those of the authors New Planner. Follow us today! and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Planning Institute of Australia. Copyright for each image belongs to either the article author(s) or the Planning Institute of pia_newplanner www.linkedin.com/in/newplanner Australia unless otherwise stated. @ ISSN 1324-8669 PP a233-867-00015 newplanner | JUNE 2016 | 3 EXECUTIVE OFFICERS’S REPORT Because planning makes a difference Michelle Riepsamen, PIA NSW Executive Officer As I stepped into my new role as NSW EO in mid-March, The ultimate decision on elevation to it fired up the age old question for me of why does PIA Fellow or Life Fellow is made by the PIA Board, which is the national governing exist? Of course my employment is, personally, a great body. The NSW Divisional Committee reason but my own job satisfaction requires it to be more representatives are however very keen to than this and of course, as PIA members you need it to be ensure that all suitable candidates are more than this too. recognised and put forward for elevation. So please give some thought as to who you think is worthy of this he PIA exists because planning day making a significant difference. One important recognition. Please send makes a difference. The profession of the best ways I think PIA acknowledges your nomination(s) together with a brief has a large role to uphold in our members is through our honorific curriculum vitae and a written response Tmaking our communities liveable, titles of Fellow and Life Fellow. to the essential criteria to the NSW cities viable, world accessible and PIA is now seeking nominations for Office [email protected] by environment balanced. This responsibility Fellows and Life Fellows and I would 30 June 2016. requires support, and that’s where PIA implore you to spend some time thinking steps in. PIA helps to develop great And back to planning making about who amongst your peers deserves a difference, spend some time planners through supporting professional this recognition. Nominations must meet remembering your instrumental role development, and advising decision the following requirements; makers of best practice through policy in this - creating places for people and submissions. All of this would of • minimum ten years membership of to successfully live, work and play, course not be possible without the PIA as a Full Member (not necessarily supported by infrastructure provision to dedication and commitment of our consecutive); enable places to function well. members. • minimum of three years in a senior professional or senior academic As our cities continue to grow and This isn’t a membership drive article but position; and our regions respond to changing a member recognition opportunity. Saying • demonstrated significant commitment circumstances, the recognition of the this, if you do know anyone who isn’t a to the profession of planning beyond value of planning becomes essential. member who should be, please shoot normal employment requirements, Whilst you continue to play these vital me an email. Apart from PIA’s backbone having shown leadership within roles, we will work on ensuring the being solidly held up by volunteers, our industry or profession beyond their value of the profession becomes better members are out in the profession every individual organisation’s interests. understood by the broader community n High quality advice in urban Areas of Expertise: and regional economics, Retail & Activity Centre Planning economic impact assessments, & Development market assessments, Commercial & Industrial Land Development policy development and research for private and public sector clients. 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Planning facilitating and managing growth, the delivery of related is a much broader activity than the narrow regulatory role to which it is relegated by infrastructure, and successful land-use patterns. It is timely many economists and some politicians. to promote the value of planning in NSW, recognising the Planning helps to create the kinds of value it brings to the economy, environment and society. places where people want to live, work, relax and invest – often termed ‘shaping places’. Planning is about improving he link between planning and people is the time this article is published a ‘Value places by helping them to function better something we need to work on. People of Planning’ workshop will have been held economically as well as socially and in many communities see planning as with key stakeholders across the planning environmentally. Planning is then about Tperhaps not as enabling as it should industry to develop a framework to promote outcomes, not just processes. be. The acid test would be to theoretically planning and planners in NSW and to To me, this paragraph succinctly take planning out of the equation and for hopefully partner with government agencies articulates the point of promoting planning and industry groups to tell a united story those communities to understand what would – it’s about creating places for people to This will include publicising the good happen if that were the case. successfully live, work and play, supported initiatives that are taking place, such as the by infrastructure provision to allow places I would like to claim these words as my own Greater Sydney Commission and to keep to function well. Good planning does but they are in fact from the 2016 Royal Town open the debate of simplifyingEnvironmental processes Planning Institute’s President, Phil Williams. and getting the right decisions made at not hinder economic growth but is in It seems that Australian planners have much the right time. It will also involveResources how we fact a major and essential contributor to in common with our British counterparts – can get communities and individualsEnvironmental to economic growth.