Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:

The purpose of the housing, building and land use committee is precisely that, which is to look at changes and developments in areas around housing and planning and to understand what the resources might be and what would be required. Our assessment is that the land use committee would be made up of chief executives and directors of planning and that senior planners would have an engagement with it. As necessary, then, there would be involvement with the Department as well. It would be the committee the Department would look to for views on various matters impacting on planning or on the delivery of housing and economic development. There is a good structure established. One of the difficulties, which the Chair mentioned, is the fact that all of us - the board and others - were looking for the same thing at the same time. When there is a transition from the strategic housing developments to the large-scale residential developments, LRDs, there is a point when there is a big resource impact and it balances out over time. Yes, there is a good mechanism for a review of the upcoming legislation and for input as to what legislative change might be needed. I believe the structures in place work well but there are no easy solutions to some of the problems.