BLOG: Calderwood a major concern

By Gareth Ward
Updated February 23 2013 - 5:52pm, first published 3:00pm

This weekI raised in parliament my concerns about the Calderwood development proposal and the independence of the Planning and Assessment Commission (PAC). In parliament, I took aim at the Department of Planning for pressuring the PAC into changing its original refusal of this major development on a flood plain and on prime agricultural land. My particular concern is that the PAC ceases to be independent when the Department of Planning can reverse or alter the PAC’s decision leading up to or as part of an appeal to a higher authority.

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