The following principles underpin your Streamlining the Town Planning Permit Process:
 
Strategic basis – your proposal  addressing schemes and clear express a strategic vision. And policy basis approach.
 
Clear and consistent – Standard provisions apply across the State and expressed. And having your application address these in the form required. By council to highlight clear and consistant information.
 
Transparent – Rationale for policy, requirements and planning decisions. Consents on your appliation made transparent.
 
Third party involvement – Public consultation and engagement by affected people. In the formation of town planning schemes, in assessing development. And in reviewing decisions.
 
• Timeliness – An assessment process that does not delay consideration of proposals. And this has highlighted by councils as the main cause of delays. By applications not submitted with all the information required.
 
Improvement – Streamlining the Town Planning Permit Process Planning schemes and processes reviewed by council. We are aware of these and the impact on your project.
 
• Single point of assessment – One person coordinates necessary referrals and notification. And determines the application process and follows it through council.
 
• Tailored assessmentDifferent levels of assessment dependent and independant on complexity. And impact of proposal.
 
• Independent review of decisions – Opportunity for planning permit decisions to reviewed by an independent body, VCAT.