‘Better Decisions’ Bill – Hampton Neighbourhood Association

Urgent: Email Upper House MPs about the Better Decisions Bill

The Planning and Environment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill 2025 could sideline local communities in planning decisions. Use this form to quickly send a personalised message to key Upper House MPs.

Your email will go to all targeted Upper House MPs, i.e the Upper House Southern Metropolitan MPs (covering all of Bayside) as well as all Victorian 'crossbench MP's.
They can collectively vote against the signficant proposed changes to the Act.

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Subject Your message (please personalise — share your own examples and concerns)

Dear Member of the Legislative Council,

I am contacting you regarding the Planning and Environment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill 2025.

Due to the over-reaching power that this Bill will confer on the Minister for Planning and the lack of consultation with councils, I am urging you to ensure the Bill receives proper scrutiny in the Parliament, ideally through an Inquiry. It is important that time is taken to ensure the Bill enables competing interests to be balanced appropriately and that housing supply is not compromised by poor planning decisions.

I am particularly concerned about ensuring:
- the Minister remains accountable to Parliament for her decisions
- the community does not lose any more rights to participate in decisions on planning matters and permit applications that affect them
- local councils genuinely participate in decisions about the detail of the Bill

I ask that you support referring this Bill to a Parliamentary Inquiry and support amendments that protect democratic oversight, community participation and good planning outcomes.

Yours sincerely,

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