The great debate

Developers say planning has been politicised and weaponised; the community says development is theft of their amenity. But now there’s climate change to deal with. OK, let’s hand over to Jess Miller our MC who invites us to imagine what life will be like in 2047: she’s Ellen Fanning and we magically haven’t aged a year (thanks probably to the new youth pills Elon invented after Twitter crashed). And look, we’ve not done a bad job. OK the waterfront in Sydney is now at Surry Hills but there have been some wins as well. How did we get there? How did we carve a reasonable path from the mess that was looming in 2022? See how the developer, the aspiring politician, the local government leader, the landscape architect and the urban planning specialist dug into their store of skills and knowledge and surprised even themselves. But this is a session you have to look at on video to get the full gist of what happened.