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Speaker 1: So the government's speeding up the way in which admires

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Speaker 1: land for infrastructure projects will have a premium payment scheme.

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Speaker 1: You sell quickly, you'll get more objections, will no longer

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Speaker 1: be heard by the Environment Court. Instead, you'll wander off

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Speaker 1: to the appropriate ministry or the Council. Public words at

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Speaker 1: expert and partner at Denton's Kensington's One, Matthew Oucleston's with us,

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Speaker 1: Matthew morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Makes sense.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's some real game changes in here.

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Speaker 1: Isn't there a premium already? Like in the government comes

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Speaker 1: along to me and goes, look, we'll off for you

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Speaker 1: a million dollars and I'll go, look, make at one

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Speaker 1: point one and we're done. I mean, that's a premium,

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Speaker 1: isn't it. Whether you talk about it.

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Speaker 2: Or not, does a premium In the legislation, it's called

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Speaker 2: additional compensation and there's two types that they're relatively small amounts.

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Speaker 2: There's a maximum of fifty thousand dollars if it's your

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Speaker 2: own house, or twenty five thousand dollars in other situations.

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Speaker 2: So given a lot of commensation amounts that we're talking,

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Speaker 2: those don't really amount to much of an incentive. So

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Speaker 2: I think the proposal to increase those quite significantly up

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Speaker 2: to one hundred and fifty ninety two thousand, that will

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Speaker 2: make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that's material. What will also make the most

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Speaker 1: difference that or the lack of environment caught and you're

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Speaker 1: dealing with the ministry or council.

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Speaker 2: I think the incentive payments will help a bit. But

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Speaker 2: some of the big delays that we've seen have been

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Speaker 2: around the fact that objections go to the Environment Court,

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Speaker 2: and that's a whole process that courts through a busy

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Speaker 2: it's a lot of other jurisdiction as well. So if

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Speaker 2: we can keep these objections out of the Environment Court

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Speaker 2: and have them dealt with directly by the acquiring authority,

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Speaker 2: I think that will make a difference. And for some

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Speaker 2: landowners they've said, look, I want to engage directly with

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Speaker 2: the Minister or with the council. I want to speak

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Speaker 2: to that body, and so it sounds like this will

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Speaker 2: give them a bit more of that direct access. I

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Speaker 2: think that will make a big difference.

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Speaker 1: Sure, well, that part's good, but I mean the Environment

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Speaker 1: Court is used not by those people but by third parties.

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Speaker 1: Ago we'll hold on as a wetland there and I

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Speaker 1: need an argument about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've seen a range of objections. I think the

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Speaker 2: more challenging ones have been where people have said, I'm

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Speaker 2: essentially challenging the nature of the project. You know, it

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Speaker 2: should be a tunnel that should go to the west,

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Speaker 2: not to the north, and those decisions have often already

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Speaker 2: been made through the rm A process and so it

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Speaker 2: is a bit crazy that there's an opportunity to challenge

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Speaker 2: those again to the ejection process. And that's something else

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Speaker 2: that the government is looking at changing the.

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Speaker 1: How are they going to deal with it? How are

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Speaker 1: they going to deal with the uniformity on councils. Why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't one council take a completely different view from another

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Speaker 1: council Unless you can somehow manage.

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Speaker 2: That, that is hard. You know, you've got the government

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Speaker 2: on the one hand, and then a whole number of

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Speaker 2: other councils on the other hand, each are able to

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Speaker 2: influent the legislation themselves, and so you do see some variation,

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Speaker 2: and that that is part of the issue. People have said,

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Speaker 2: when I deal with different councils, I get quite different experiences.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure we're ever going to be able to

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Speaker 2: change all of that. But I think as part of

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Speaker 2: these wider reforms that government is looking at setting out

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Speaker 2: some more best practice across the entire public works, etc.

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Speaker 2: But of course the government is only responsible for the

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Speaker 2: government side of it, not the council side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly good and so I appreciate it. Matthew Matthew Augustin,

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Speaker 1: who's with Denton's Kensington.

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