There has been a long and spirited campaign against the proposal from The Mt Wellington Cableway Company (MWCC) to build a commercial centre on the summit of kunanyi/Mt Wellington, an aerial tramway up the face of the mountain, and associated infrastructure and works (background information available here). Now, with a state election coming up soon, Residents Opposed to the Cable Car are urging locals in nipaluna/ Hobart to attend an important public meeting.

They say:

Would you trust the Liberals to not use DAP’s, (Development Application Panels) to get a cable car approved?

Would you trust the Labor party to not do the same? Well, you wouldn’t know because, typically, they don’t have a clear policy position on this vitally important proposed change to our planning laws.

The Tasmanian Liberals want to remove planning appeal rights and introduce a developer friendly development assessment and approval process for developments, not only across all Tasmania’s private/urban land, but also in our World Heritage Areas, National Parks and reserves.
This process could easily be used in the future to facilitate the cable car.

The Liberals also want to give themselves new top-down powers to initiate land re-zones. This is essentially the ability to rewrite a planning scheme to suit the development.

We need to stop this.

We need to force the Labor party to say what their position is on this proposed policy.

We need you to come along to the Town Hall

Date:  Wednesday March 6
Time:  1.10 – 2 pm
Venue: Hobart Town Hall, 50 Macquarie Street, Hobart

We need to show all major parties that we support councils being involved in planning, and we reject DAP’s which remove any appeal rights and important checks and balances.