VIC Legal Series|Reforming Victoria's Planning System: The future of third-party VCAT review rights &transitional issues
Victoria’s planning system is undergoing significant transformation. The Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill 2025 recalibrates third-party appeal rights by narrowing VCAT review pathways and restricting objector standing for defined application types. This change is expected to significantly reduce the number of third-party planning merits reviews in Victoria.
Victoria’s planning system is undergoing significant transformation. The Planning Amendment (Better Decisions Made Faster) Bill 2025 recalibrates third-party appeal rights by narrowing VCAT review pathways and restricting objector standing for defined application types. This change is expected to significantly reduce the number of third-party planning merits reviews in Victoria.
Speaker
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Joanna Kenny, Special Counsel, Lander & Rogers
Joanna is a senior environment and planning lawyer with extensive experience advising both government and private clients on planning, environment, heritage, and land acquisition and compensation law matters. This includes advising on complex and significant infrastructure projects involving contentious planning, environmental and land assembly issues, and supporting landowners and developers with property development projects in the residential, industrial and commercial sectors.
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Facilitator
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Kat Smith MPIA, Senior Policy Officer, Planning Institute of Australia
Kat is an urban planner with over over fifteen years of experience across local and state government as well as the private sector in Victoria. Kat is now Senior Policy Officer with PIA, working across the Victorian and national offices.
Kat has a strong background in strategic planning and policy development, working across many areas of planning policy development and implementation, particularly in roles at the Victorian Planning Authority and Whittlesea City Council. Kat is particularly interested in building sound, evidence-based policy and advocacy to inform decision-making to drive outcomes that best serve the public interest.
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