Anti-corruption safeguards and the NSW planning system
- Report length
- 28 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: Chapter 1: Introduction and overview, pages 6 to 9
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The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption sets out safeguards it considers necessary to reduce corruption risks in the planning system.
It examines decision-making criteria, competing public interests, transparency, complexity, community participation and third-party appeals.
The Commission cautions that frequent planning complaints do not themselves demonstrate corruption, while broad discretion over departures from plans creates risk.
Its 16 recommendations cover objective criteria, oversight, simpler rules, clearer decisions, public consultation and wider access to merit appeals.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
This high ranking in complaint numbers, however, does not directly correlate with evidence of corruption.
Findings and recommendations
Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.
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- Corruption prevention and research reports make no findings about individuals; any recommendations are not extracted unless set out as numbered recommendations that could be read confidently.
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