The NSW government has unveiled plans that would make it cheaper and easier to hold outdoor events as part of a push to improve the state's night-time economy. Legislation will be introduced this month with a view to passing the new laws just in time for summer.
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00:00 It's a suite of legislative reforms the government hopes will fire up the state's social life
00:07 and shed it of its nanny state status.
00:10 We really want to bring that vibrancy back into the night time right throughout this
00:16 summer period.
00:17 We've seen footpaths turned into piazzas, we've seen roads turned into restaurants.
00:22 It's an exciting time for the city.
00:25 The government wants to make it easier to shut down streets and host community events.
00:31 Under the proposal, the government would streamline planning, licensing and other regulations.
00:37 It would also introduce global approvals so organisers could reuse things like traffic
00:43 management plans, removing the need for costly new development approvals.
00:47 There's real potential cost savings here as a result of these measures.
00:51 Cutting costs for the public to go out, also boosting business for small business and making
00:56 things easier for event organisers with these changes.
00:59 He estimates the measures could save organisers of big events up to $100,000.
01:06 That's all good news given the cost of living and the cost of going out is rising.
01:11 Also on the agenda, the government's long-touted plans to make it harder to shut down venues
01:16 and community events over noise complaints and for COVID-era alfresco dining to be a
01:21 mainstay.
01:22 There are assurances councils will still have a say.
01:26 Looking to enable local communities to come back out to their high streets and bring vibrancy
01:32 back.
01:33 It's all part of the government's proposed so-called vibrancy legislation, which it will
01:38 try to get passed by the end of the year, so long as other MPs join the party.
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