Sartor delivers for the small bar movement

In the hours ahead the NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor will table the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2008 in the NSW Legislative Assembly that includes changes crucial to the success of the small bars movement.

New licenses under new liquor laws that wanted live entertainment and would have been badly hamstrung by the notorious NSW PoPE entertainment laws are set to benefit as are musicians, residents, and existing liquor licenses including NSW Restaurants, Hotels and Clubs.

Out of date NSW entertainment laws are now to be replaced under amendments to the NSW Planning system by more efficient processes which remove duplication, and that will encourage more live music, theatre, comedy and public speaking in licensed venues.

Note that these Act amendments are bundled in with other much more "newsworthy" planning changes as they go before the House.
Planning Minister Frank Sartor is under fire from all sides, the Local Governments and Shires are at war with him, and a blatant and undisguised press campaign against Sartor is underway across print and electronic media.

No one has had anything good to say as yet about the Minister and PoPE reform, and yet the potential for the cultural redevelopment of NSW once free from such draconian red tape is profound!

Planning laws that required 2 development applications for a piano and ignored the same performance on a television in the same space were a part of a system that is out of date and just didn’t work.

Goodonyer Frank Sartor and the Iemma team for your courage in working towards making a genuine difference to the cultural landscape of NSW.