Archive: Farming Rural Group
Last Updated 28/6/09
(16/5/09 - P) Consultation begins, submissions due in by 26 June
According to the Department of Planning and Community Development's website, this project is about reviewing land use policies to address issues relating to farm production and adjoining land uses, value of high amenity rural land, demands of urban growth on agricultural area, and providing a level of certainty and flexibility to enable rural economic adjustment. That means it's important. For more information about the project and making submissions, and to access the Discussion Paper, go to:
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenpl.nsf/LinkView/7D06907CE6311A2ACA257561007877031E5D9357D6368555CA2572CE00103123
(2/4/09 - P) So much - everything - hangs in the balance...
The Future Farming Rural Planning Group has been engaged by DPCD to provide the Victorian Government with advice in implementing its Future Farming strategy. This group will look at implementing the Future Farming Strategy, including making recommendations on changes to planning schemes.
The Group is charged with providing specialist advice to the Minister for Planning that leads to land use planning policies to address issues relating to:
They are also expected to examine potential land use planning issues to increasing productivity and sustainability and work to identify specific rural and regional projects which will help improve the effectiveness of local government land use planning from a farming and agricultural perspective.
The Rural Planning Group will be releasing a discussion paper and calling for public submissions in the first quarter of 2009.
To see more about the members of the Rural Planning Group, click here or for more information on the entire project, go to
http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenpl.nsf/LinkView/7D06907CE6311A2ACA257561007877031E5D9357D6368555CA2572CE00103123
or www.dpcd.vic.gov.au and follow the trail: Home > Planning > Policy and Projects > Regional Policy
MRRA Says:
We hope the outcomes produced by this group aren't as disappointingly economics-only focussed as the Land and Biodiversity in a time of Climate Change paper was. What the world needs now are people who GET IT, who understand not that there is money to be made from the demise of Earth but that there are lives and so much more dependent on saving it!
It is a little disconcerting to find members of the advisory group have experience in projects that have already disappointed - Land and Biodiversity in a time of Climate Change, the Municipal Association of Victoria's attempt to 'revise' rural zones, the North-South Pipeline project...
We are prepared to give the group a go, with huge encouragement to pleasantly surprise us with outcomes that do more than create economic opportunities bereft of sustainability principles, regard to biodiversity and commitment to combating climate change.