Member for Davidson, Jonathan O’Dea, has taken the fight over inappropriate development in the Ku-ring-gai Council area to Planning Minister, Frank Sartor, on the floor of parliament.
Last Friday Mr O’Dea introduced a Notice of Motion aimed at bringing Mr Sartor to account over the number of additional dwellings being planned for the Ku-ring-gai Council area.
The Notice of Motion called on the Parliament to condemn Minister Sartor’s appointment of the Planning Panel to Ku-ring-gai Council and the inappropriate push for even more new dwellings in the Ku-ring-gai Council area than required under the Metropolitan Strategy.
“Mr Sartor, through his Planning Panel, has unduly limited the right of the local community to determine its own future,” Mr O’Dea said.
“The next Liberal/National Government will undertake a complete review of Labor’s draconian planning laws.
“Central to our reforms will be the community’s right to determine its own future, without Labor’s ‘one size fits all’ approach.
“The O’Farrell led government will also include the imposition of limits upon the powers Labor has increasingly vested in the Planning Minister,” Mr O’Dea said.
“These limits will continue, regardless of who the Planning Minister is. Certainly Mr Sartor’s power-hungry and belligerent reign appears set to end.
“Rumours that he will be replaced in a cabinet re-shuffle, after the local government elections, will be welcomed by many, particularly those in the Ku-ring-gai Council area.
“In the meantime, the fight will continue against the Minister’s inappropriate planning laws, which erode local input and threaten the area’s historic characteristics, traditional lifestyle and environmental value,” Mr O’Dea concluded.
