Tele Jones: Stokes and Planning Commission

tele jones: But as communities who have opposed coalmines in the Hunter can bitterly attest, the IPC rarely overturns the department's recommendation, according to The Independent. What's riled up the Tele and Jones is that the planning and public spaces minister, Rob Stokes, had the temerity to say the department's assessment reflects the consistent and widespread opposition to the scale of this proposal . NSW abortion bill passes first hurdle in late-night sitting Read more Jones has called Stokes delinquent and called for his sacking. The 500m project is still to go to the Independent Planning Commission for a decision. The Telegraph has run a series of prominent stories with headlines such as Robbing the Ritz Stokes hits the panic button with secret phone call. The developer group Urban Task Force to the Transport and Tourism Forum, representing infrastructure construction companies, have chimed in, providing an echo chamber of pro-development support. It's run a feature about how Sydney needs a new hotel and how the development lobby think it's time for Pyrmont a historic suburb of old warehouses, terraces and public housing once home to dock workers to be developed. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.