A SINGLE, statewide planning system "isn't going to fix anything", according to high-profile developer Errol Stewart.
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While the Liberals' state planning policy was welcomed by the Property Council and Master Builders Association, Mr Stewart said it would still need to be delivered.
"The proof of the pudding will be in the eating," Mr Stewart said.
The Liberal Party announced its state planning policy this week, which included one planning system, "call-in powers" for the planning minister, a 24-hour turnaround for home building assessment, a 21-day turnaround for other developments and the establishment of a planning reform task force.
Mr Stewart said putting a number on a time frame for assessment wouldn't necessarily help.
"If they don't start the clock it's meaningless," he said.
Mr Stewart said development applications went to the water authorities first before assessment began.
"The process is the problem," he said.
Property Council director Mary Massina welcomed the announcement as a "modern and contemporary" planning system.
She said a single planning system would provide "clarity and consistency" to ordinary Tasmanians and developers.
Ms Massina said the 24-hour turnaround on home building approvals made sense.
"There is no reason that council can't tick it off. This is not rocket science," she said.
Master Builders Association executive director Michael Kerschbaum said the key to achieving the changes proposed would lie in the effectiveness of the planning reform taskforce.
Planning Minister Bryan Green said the single planning scheme was a "fraud".
"The policy would double the size of the current planning bureaucracy, leave local government and developers in limbo for years and waste millions of dollars," Mr Green said.
Greens leader Nick McKim said the Liberal Party was trying to solve a problem that did not exist.
"Tasmania has the fastest planning system in the country right now," Mr McKim said.
The Property Council released its election wish-list yesterday, calling on "seven game changers for Tasmania's prosperity".
The list included a modernised planning regime, a focus on population growing, job creation and clearing red tape.
