Your last opportunity to join over 5000 others in signing the Reform of Queensland Planning Legislation Petition by Lois Levy. Very few e-petitions to state parliament attract such strong community support, with this Petition in the top 5%.
Please sign the petition which can be accessed here.
Gold Coasters are fed up with loss of neighbourhood character, environmental destruction and traffic congestion, caused by badly planned development. The current planning laws allow far too many relaxations of planning scheme requirements with no perceivable community benefit. The result is apartment blocks over height limits, increased density, no setbacks to enable landscaping, car stackers instead of parking, and no consideration of cumulative impact in neighbourhoods.
Better planning laws would impose more controls on building heights, residential density and provision of open space which would give the community more certainty about what the future holds for their neighbourhood.