‘Unfinished Business’: Neoliberal Planning Reform in Australia
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Urban Policy and Research
- Vol. 18 (1), 7-28
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08111140008727821
Abstract
This paper reviews the recent and contemporary neoliberal reform agendas that have sought a reduced role for planning in Australia. Our aim is to describe these reform paths and to theorise their broader implications for urban governance in Australia. Our analysis focuses on two initiatives: first, the broad reform framework embodied in National Competition Policy that is now affecting planning regulation at the state level; and second, the new vision for a standardised development control system that has been put forward by the Property Council of Australia. As we will show, neoliberal reforms have the potential both to reduce the possibility for spatial regulation and also to undermine the other recent reform agendas that have sought a positive transformation of planning; namely, community democratic movements and environmentalism.Keywords
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