There are two main ways that the Tasmanian Planning Policies (TPPs) will be implemented. One is through the regional land use strategies (RLUSs) and the second is through the Tasmanian Planning Scheme (TPS).
The making of the TPPs triggers a review of the three regional strategies to bring them into compliance. It also causes a review of the State Planning Provisions (SPP) within the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, and every subsequent amendment to the Local Provisions Schedules (LPS) must be consistent with the TPPs.
The TPPs do not apply to individual development applications other than Major Project proposals.
The TPPs contain a section titled ‘General application and implementation’ that describes what parts of the TPPs are operational and provides directions on how the TPPs are to be implemented into the SPPs, LPSs and RLUSs.
These directions include 6 implementation ‘principles’ that guide how the policies, expressed through the TPPs, are to apply.
The implementation principles are operational parts of the TPPs that must be taken into consideration. They include the following instructions:
- there is no order or hierarchy in the TPP policy framework;
- no element of the TPPs should be read in isolation from another to imply a particular outcome;
- reasonable alternate approaches to achieve a strategy can be considered;
- strategies are to be considered in the context of the policy objective that the strategy is seeking to achieve;
- provides a list of considerations for determining if a strategy is relevant to a particular matter; and
- provides a list of considerations for resolving competing interests that may arise when applying multiple policies.