101314 Urban Management: Governance Audit Report on GSC

This report presents a governance audit of the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC), examining its structure, functions, and strategic plans. The report begins with an overview of the GSC, established by the Greater Sydney Commission Act 2015, and its role in shaping the future of Greater Sydney. It ou...Read More

Governance Audit Report on Greater Sydney
Commission

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
GOVERNANCE AUDIT REPORT............................................................................................................3
1. Overview of Greater Sydney Commission.......................................................................................3
Satutory functions of commission...........................................................................................................4
Key Priorities...........................................................................................................................................5
2. Governance......................................................................................................................................5
District Plans-Draft..................................................................................................................................6
A Metropolis of three cities.....................................................................................................................6
Media Reports.........................................................................................................................................7
Budget Estimation Hearing......................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Committee for Sydney is an institution deeply interested in the future of cities. Sydney is being
reshaped under the leadership of Arcadis, a member of Committee for Sydney. It has changed
the expectations of people regarding autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the change they’ll bring in
the cities. These autonomous vehicles are going to have a great impact on the everyday life.
They’ll be able to reduce the number of on road deaths and it will facilitate movement in an
efficient way (Pearson and et.al, 2015). A six Draft District Plan was released by the commission
in November 2016, in order to achieve their vision for the future of Greater Sydney 2056. This
district plan included theNorth, West, Central, West Central and South West. All these plans
came into force between few last months of 2016 to mid 2017. In this report there will be studied
about the greater Sydney commission and analyze their ideas as well as theories
GOVERNANCE AUDIT REPORT
1. Overview of Greater Sydney Commission
The Greater Sydney Commission was built up on 27 January 2016 through the Greater
Sydney Commission Act 2015 (GSC Act).The social and physical environment of Greater
Sydney is going through many valuable changes in the last decade. The commission in order to
shape the future of Greater Sydney has to coordinate a plan that will benefit the institution as
well as the city. Collaboration is a way to achieve this goal. A city tha contribute and
collaborates tends to give more quality to community resources, social programs and
infrastructure for people (Brown, 2017). Greater Sydney commission is intended in such a way
that it enables integration of planning decision. The integration has to take place between the
councils and the stat Government as well as between the government departments and
government agencies that have the control over the matters affecting Greater Sydney’s land use
plan. The interaction needs to be widely spread in order to reach as many of Greater Sydney’s
more than 4 million citizens as they can.

The Greater Sydney Commission has fostered many drafts and the main one draft is of the
region that includes the Greater Sydney plan and also developed five other drafts of district plans
which includes:-
 The Central district that is the Eastern City
 The plan for the West Central District is the Central city plan
And the district which combines the south west region and west region is named as Western
City District plan
Satutory functions of commission
• It provides the Minister with advises and recommendations related to the Greater Sydney
Region's development (Jones, 2018).
• It prepares and provides the Minister with the reports regarding the implementation of the plans
and proposing plans related to the Greater Sydney Region's development.
• It provides advice to the Minister regarding the application of all development funds that is
created under the section 129 of Environment Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
• It assists local councils and government agencies which also includes an agency of the
Commonwealth in the Greater Sydney region regarding implementation of plans or proposals
related to the Greater Sydney Region's development.
•It fulfills the Minister's request by providing any information, advice or report that he may have
asked for.
•To provide the local government areas in the Greater Sydney region with the power of
environmental planning instruments which is currently in the hands of the department and the
council.
•Issue Gateway to move in a fixed direction under the EP and A Act, this function is now
authorized to the department.
•Conducting land use planning and zoning Reviews under the EP and A Act, this function is now
authorized to the department.

• Power to make district plans and prepare draft of some of the strategic plans for the Greater
Sydney Region.
Key Priorities
• Establishment of the institution.
• To discuss another shared vision for the Greater Sydney Region’s planning by working
together with the industry, community, State and local government.
•To make six drafts of District Plans for public showcase (Milkis and Nelson, 2015).
• Establishment of six Sydney Planning Panels in order to show important regional
developmental areas. .
• Working with the government in order to integrate infrastructure planning and deliberate land
use.
2. Governance
Governance includes all the processes of governing either done by the government of
state by a market, over a social system and might be through the force, power laws, norms or
language of different society.
It is in connection to "the procedures of association and basic leadership among the on-screen
characters engaged with an aggregate issue that prompt the creation, fortification, or propagation
of social standards and organizations (Cornelissen, 2017)."
Some principles of Greater Sydney Commission’s governance are:
•, Way ofRepresentation, Participation and, Fair Conduct of Elections
• Reacting quickly and positively
• Efficiency of work and its effectiveness
• Openness and Transparency
• Rul's Law
• Ethical issues Conductance

• Competence and Capacity
• Innovative changes and Openness to those Changes
• Sustainable and Long term Orientation
•Good Financial Management
• Human rights, Social Cohesion and Cultural Diversity
• Matter accountability
• Clear, good and concise remuneration report
• Good relationship with share holders
District Plans-Draft
The Draft District Plans arethe shared association between the territorial arrangement (an
arrangement for developing Sydney and neighborhood natural designs) . They demonstrate the
realities and work for each region and layout to indicate how an arrangement for developing
Sydney can be executed at various neighborhood level (Bradley and et.al., 2017).
 They provide the housing type at very low price such as 10percent for affordable house
for rent in greater Sydney.
 This project delivers the regional network of parks, waterways, bushland, treelined
streets by creating the Greater Sydney Green Grid
 Designating the government and private sectors according to their collaboration areas to
improve productivity, livability and sustainability
A Metropolis of three cities
The growing population Greater Sydney is transforming into a Metropolis of threw cities- the
Western Parkland city, the Central River City and the Eastern Harbour City
This integrate with transport, land, and Infrastructure planning between government and state
agencies
People existing in Sydney from the earliest time have knowledge, understanding, custodianship
of landscape connected to country

Country is multidimensional and moving forward andcovering all the aspects and extending
more. . Country connections are familiar and deeply personal to everything with unity between
them (Sherry and Easthope, 2016 ). They welcome country’s protocols as they understand and
respect the planning and land use of the Greater Sydney region.
The three urban areas – the Eastern Harbor City, the Central River City and the Western
Parkland city demonstrates the antiquated l association with these terrains as 'saltwater County '.
More prominent Sydney holds an uncommon place In Australia s history since it is the primary
spot of association between Aboriginal individuals and European individuals the future plan a d
improvement of more prominent Sydney Include naming of streets, parks, boulevards
A Metropolis of the three urban communities ignite the antiquated native learning and
association with the Greater Sydney scene, with contemporary land arranging plans to
demonstrate a dazzling situation.
Greater Sydney has the largest assemlage of aboriginal people in Australia with families from
NSW and Australia
A Metropolis of three cities rebalances the Greater Sydney – jobs, placing housing, infrastructure
with more residents
This plan will show the benefits the growth in all parts of greater Sydney and ensure that it is the
world’s best place in the whole world to work and live. It increases the productivity by joining
skilled workers and good jobs and makes the city more sustainable by protecting natural
environment and landscape.
Collaboration between different cities is the heart of Greater Sydney Commission which assess
growth scenarios in infrastructure and landscape delivery.
Media Reports
Nominations open for Greater Sydney Planning Awards
12 February 2018

Collaboration, innovation, and outstanding planning practices that result in better outcomes for
communities will be in the spotlight at the 2018 Greater Sydney Planning Awards, which
opened today.
Chief Commissioner, Lucy Turnbull AO, said: “The Greater Sydney Planning Awards celebrate
Greater Sydney’s exciting future and recognise the importance of placing people at the heart of
good planning.”
“We want to acknowledge excellence in planning and recognise bold initiatives that will deliver
benefits to communities, productivity and our environment.
“Thoughtful, quality planning and design is essential to creating great places and is absolutely
critical to building community trust – the social and economic benefits are a flow-on effect of
this,” Ms Turnbull said.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural Greater Sydney Planning Awards, presented by
NSW Minister for Planning and Housing, Anthony Roberts, this year’s categories align with the
Commission’s key themes of infrastructure and collaboration, liveability, productivity and
sustainability.
The six award categories are:
Great community collaboration
Development supported by infrastructure a very goid place to live and work
Planning for jobs and skills
Great sustainability initiative
The Chief Commissioner’s Award
“Last year, we saw a broad range of nominations, from local initiatives to large-scale
developments and we’re excited to see that kind of diversity again,” Ms Turnbull said.
“We’re looking forward to entries that showcase visionary thinking and a commitment to
excellence in planning for Greater Sydney’s future,” she said

Nominations are invited from local authorities, consultants, developers, , community groups,
public institutions, partnerships and other teams and agencies. .
The nominated project can be from the proponent or be nominated by another individual,
group or body.
Nominations close on 13 April 2018
Budget Estimation Hearing
Notes 2016/17
$0'000
Total expenses excluding
losses
personnel expenses, operating
expenses and other expenses
21,120
Total revenue Grants, contributions and
other revenue
21,120
This budget waz provided by department of planning and environment
Outline budget of 2017/18
The budget of Greater sydney Commission 2017/18 is $21.84 million
This budget will be used to make new drafts. These plans will develop the city's strategic
planning to deliver good jobs, infrastructure and homes to many people over the next 40 to 50
years.
This funding will be used to support communities and stakeholders to initiate GPOP and New
Western Sydney Airport and other important growth areas
Independent Auditor's report
General audit report by - Lucy Hughes Turnbull
(chief executive)

"This is an amusement changing minute for Greater Sydney – our vision for a city of three urban
communities will be acknowledged through our resolute pledge to coordinated effort and solid
conviction that urban areas are in a general sense human spots.
Being the Chief Executive, Lucy has been given the task to carry out and help in creating
productive and calculated projects for Greater Sydney.
She is concentrating on finer synchronizing of the projects of accommodations and employment
for the Greater Sydney.
She is a Capitalist, a Benefactor and has a long lived passion for cities and technical and public
transformations. She managed the commission for about three years(2012-2015).
She also manages an ASX - listed biomedical firm handling clinical evolution for an immuno -
therapeutic cancer treatment. In addition to this, Lucy was also the first woman to become a city
manager of the city of Sydney from 2003-2004.
She became an Executive of the Order of Australia for eminent aid to the community, local
government and commerce.
She was presented with an honorary Doctorate of Business in the year 2012 through the NSW
University, and an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Western Sydney in the
year 2017 and was also chosen as the Adjunct Professor in the faculty of Built Environment in
2016 by the NSW University.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that the challenge is that of leadership for all
infrastructure owners, property owners and government at both individuals and collaborative
levels. As mentioned in this report tbe Australian and NSW state government are moving
forward in many ways. The NSW governmen activated legislation and collaboration with
different industries in real world trials of level 4and they also established research bodies for
future technologies and for the funding issue. The strongest message we received from the
property owners and infrastructure owners we interviewed is that there is an immediate need to
formalise approaches to our autonomous future, including identifying what will be impacted
and what value is at risk, and determining the timeline for embracing this future.

Strong collaboration, strong leadership and coordinated planning are essential for the growth of
the Greater Sydney Commission. To show this thing federal, state and local governments and
industries must come forward to take immediate steps to create, show and drive a shared agenda,
while also developing and implementing appropriate legislation. If they don’t do so, a crucial
opportunity will be missed – for it’s that is like letting the market set the agenda and showcase
in relation to new technology and legislating reactively rarely leads to the best possible outcomes
fo industries and citizens.

REFERENCES
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Jones, P.W., 2018. International policies for Third World education: UNESCO, literacy and
development. Routledge.
Milkis, S.M. and Nelson, M., 2015. The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776–
2014. Cq Press.
Cornelissen, S., 2017. The global tourism system: Governance, development and lessons from
South Africa. Routledge.
Bradley, Q., Burnett, A. and Sparling, W., 2017. Neighbourhood planning and the spatial
practices of localism. Localism and Neighbourhood Planning. Power to the People, pp.57-74.
Sherry, C. and Easthope, H., 2016. Under-supply of schooling in the gentrified and regenerated
inner city. Cities, 56, pp.16-23.