THE ACT government was to have finalised and published new Territory Plan and District Strategies by July and the Canberra Liberals are pressing for their release.

Planning and land management spokesman Peter Cain is asking why the finalised versions of the proposed planning reforms are yet to be published, despite Planning Minister Chris Steel previously claiming the reforms were due for release last month.

“The Planning Minister told the Legislative Assembly during the Planning Bill 2022 debate on June 1 that finalising the Territory Plan and the District Strategies is the next step once the bill passes and that, I quote, ‘we will do this in the next month’.

“June has come and gone. July has come and gone. It is now August, and we still have no indication of when these reforms will be finalised and released to the public.

“It is the community and industry stakeholders who lose out the most because of this uncertainty. We all need time to analyse and assess these important planning reforms to see how they will affect how residents live, how businesses operate and how suburbs look.”