Mr. Paul Hogan:

The revised area plan arrangements in the planning Bill should be more focused on that sort of thing. Outside cities in particular, local area plans have become overly focused on zoning, which is not their purpose. The revised area plan arrangements, known as priority area plans, would be appropriate. They would enable that finer level of detail. We have not applied fast-track planning mechanisms as are possible for UDZs and have been possible for SDZs to area plans. It could be considered in future but the recent history of fast-track planning suggests it cannot easily be widely applied without concern locally. It has, perhaps, contributed to the prevalence of judicial review.