Saturday, March 26, 2016

What Kind of Flooding Is Launceston Actually Planning For?

Currently there is quite a lot being speculated about and quite a bit of is impacted upon by the city’s infrastructure. That infrastructure is somewhat impacted upon by the city’s geography and the ‘spectre of the 100 Year Flood’ is an important element of that. Not too far away from that is the “health of the river”.  It has been claimed that the river’s current state is not too far away from “open sewer status”.

At election time this kind of discussion inevitably becomes an ‘Urgent Issue’ – that is until the next election. In the meantime planning seems to go on as if all this was simply a peripheral interest.  Over the years many of ‘the big issues’ have been put to one side but time is catching up.

In the post-industrial circumstances the city is now in comes the question, what is the city’s future?  In the city’s changing circumstances what role will education and training play in the potential service industry future? As has always been the case in Launceston, post settlement,, just how well will its geography serve the city for the imaginings attributed to its ‘the future’?

Then come the questions about what are in fact the long term plans for the city and what informs them? Who is planning what for Launceston and on what information? These maps may provide an insight into the realm that is before ‘the community’ and assist in some way in contextualising the questions that now need to be asked in the context of an open dialogue.

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