Rachel Abraha

1 month ago | lexology.com | Bill Loutit |Sarah Mitchell |Matt Conway |Sarah Scott |Hamish Harwood |Rachel Abraha

If you missed out on having a project listed in the Fast-track Approvals Act 2024 (Act), or you didn’t apply, you can still use the fast-track process as long as you can demonstrate your project will bring ‘significant regional or national benefits’. There are two pathways to use the Act to fast track a project: the first is to be a listed project in Schedule 2, the second is applying to be a ‘referred project’.

Oct 21, 2024 | lexology.com | Hamish Harwood |Sally Mckechnie |Bill Loutit |Matt Conway |Mike Wakefield |Padraig McNamara | +4 more

The Fast Track Approvals Bill (the FTAB) has emerged from the Environment Select Committee with wholesale changes throughout. Some of the main changes have already been foreshadowed, others not. A selection of the key changes are summarised and discussed below. We will provide more detailed analysis of the FTAB in the coming weeks that will be posted on our Fast-track resource centre which is available here.