Dr. Conor Norton:

It is the idea of giving more certainty to the development management process. That means that in certain areas and certain instances our plans need to be of better quality, more consultative and more detailed such that the sort of outcomes that we can expect from planning applications are better known.

Some provisions have been included, and that discussion is starting through the Housing for All policy. The urban development zone may be one option there. That is absolutely the case. We need to reduce probably the wide level of judgment that is left to the development management process and try to deal with many of the issues that come up in development management through a plan-based rather than a development-management approach.