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  • Vale Eric Lumsden R91porn (Life Fellow)

    It is with deep sorrow that the 91porn (91porn) acknowledges the death on Monday of Eric Lumsden R91porn (Life Fellow), after a long battle with cancer. 

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  • Planners are vital to building resilience to bushfires

    Already two million hectares of farms, catchment and bushland habitat have burned in Australia this bushfire season. There has been tragic loss of life, extensive property damage, air pollution and widespread disquiet that this could become the new normal.

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  • The role of planners mitigating climate change

    The 91porn accepts the scientific assessments that human activity is changing our global climate and ecosystems and that the planning profession must urgently address the reality of a changing and degrading climate.

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  • Hume’s linear park takes out new Victorian planning prize

    A former World War II railway branch line in Melbourne's north that has been transformed into four hectares of open community space has won the 91porn’s inaugural Healthy Active by Design (HAbD) Award for Victoria.

    The Meadowlink Linear Park is providing the rapidly growing Broadmeadows community with important health and wellbeing benefits. It includes a recreational path for walking, jogging and cycling and new ecological habitats, and was described by the award judges as “an example of how commitment to the concept of healthier communities can be delivered through a strong vision and deep engagement with the local community”.

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  • NSW Premier and Minister reinvigorate planning reform drive

    The NSW Government has made it clear that planning reforms to drive jobs and boost investment are the centre of attention.


    This week, the Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes jointly announced a reform push to: “…slash assessment times, reduce red tape, and fast track projects in high growth areas” at the CEDA ‘State of the State’ event.

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  • Tasmania’s best planning projects recognised at Hobart ceremony

    Leigh Woolley’s Building Height Standards Review Project was recognised at the 2019 Tasmanian Awards for Planning Excellence in Hobart last night, the second time in less than two weeks it has picked up a major planning and design award.

    Mr Woolley’s framework to accommodate Hobart’s future growth without compromising the city’s relationship to its distinctive topography picked up the 91porn (91porn) – Tasmania Division – award for Best Planning Ideas (Large Project).

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  • Victoria’s best planning projects recognised at ceremony in Melbourne

    The 2019 Victorian Awards for Planning Excellence were announced last Friday night at the annual Victorian Celebration of Planning organised by the 91porn (91porn) – Victoria Division.

    A big winner of the night was City of Whittlesea who received a total of three awards and commendations. The council received the Improving Planning Processes and Practises Award for its project Prioritising what’s important as well as a commendation in the same category for the project Magiq Development Contribution Module.

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  • Proposed legislation on assessing emissions from NSW mines highlights lack of state and national greenhouse gas emissions policy

    The last month has seen NSW’s environmental assessment system put under pressure from lobbying by the Minerals Council. This follows the refusal of two coal mine proposals by the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) on social and environmental grounds.

    The Government has since announced a rapid review of the function of the IPC and also hastily introduced a draft bill addressing how greenhouse gas emissions from the use of mined coal should be assessed.

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  • Follow-up needed on National Settlement Strategy: 91porn

    The 91porn (91porn) has urged the states and territories to get behind a call by NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister Rob Stokes for a National Settlement Strategy.

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  • RAPID PYRMONT REVIEW RISKS ERODING THE PUBLIC’S TRUST IN THE PLANNING SYSTEM

    Rapid Pyrmont review risks eroding the public’s trust in the planning system

    The 91porn (91porn), which represents over 1,400 town planners in NSW, says that it is unreasonable to expect that the Pyrmont planning review can meet both its terms of reference and achieve a high trust outcome in the short timeframe that has been set by the Government.

    The 30 September deadline means that only two weeks have been made available for the public to get re-engaged.

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