The planning system is broken, now is the time to fix it

By Jacob Saulwick
Updated September 1 2016 - 12:08am, first published 12:02am
City of Sydney councillor John Mant says planning systems need to be simplified. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
City of Sydney councillor John Mant says planning systems need to be simplified. Photo: Sahlan Hayes
Illustration: Dionne Gain Photo: Dionne Gain
Illustration: Dionne Gain Photo: Dionne Gain

John Mant is a councillor on the City of Sydney who is not standing at next week's election. Mant was elected on Clover Moore's ticket in 2012. But his involvement in local government and planning pre-dates even Sydney's long-serving lord mayor. Mant worked with Whitlam minister Tom Uren on urban policy in the 1970s. When the then Coalition government wanted to re-write laws regarding councils in the early 1990s, Mant had a major role in drawing up the Local Government Act (1993).

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