Third-Party Appeal Rights: Past and Future

The first comprehensive town planning legislation in Australia was enacted by the Western Australian Parliament in 1929. This followed a number of events in Australia to showcase the benefits of town planning, from 1914, onwards. They included an Australasian town planning tour by Charles Reade on behalf of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association of Great Britain, in 1914 -1915, after which Reade became town planning advisor to the South Australian government and in 1916 introduced the Town Planning and Housing Bill into the South Australian Parliament (where it was defeated by a propertyfranchise based Legislative Council). In 1917 the first Australian Town Planning and Housing Exhibition and Conference was held in Adelaide, attracting some 250 persons. A second conference was held in Brisbane in 1918. In 1920 the Town Planning and Development Act 1920 (SA) became law, and provided for a Department of Town Planning, with a government town planner, a central advisory board of town planning and town planning committees at local council level.