Mr. Paul Hogan:

One of the things we mentioned was that the content of development plans will be streamlined into a number of different strategies. At the moment it is heavily focused on settlement, housing and population. Some of the other aspects do not get the same prominence. We have proposed a number of strategies to address different things. One of those relates to the environment and climate change. Rather than the planning system and development plans trying to do everything for every other area of government and society, it needs the appropriate feed-in to the appropriate set of policies. As a result of the low carbon Act and the preparation of local climate action plans, the idea is that the strategy within the development plan dealing with climate action and transition would take relevant policies and feed-ins from national climate policy. More pertinently, where it overlaps with local objectives and plans, there is an opportunity to make it real and to relate it to the other actions of the local authority. One of the things that has frustrated the planning system and development plans is that people feel they can load a lot of other sectoral objectives into development plans when maybe the right approach is to not carry forward those things. That is where it is. We have been clear about that.