Tasmania will become the first state to implement a single statewide planning scheme under new provisions unveiled on Wednesday.
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The change is expected to make it easier for people to build, manage businesses and run farms.
It will mean that consistent rules will apply across the state for residents and companies, rather than than different protocols applying to different municipalities, as is the current landscape.
Planning Minister Peter Gutwein said the consultation process has spanned four years.
"This will make it fairer, faster, simpler and cheaper to get buildings out of the ground in Tasmania," he said.
"The consultation period was actually the longest period that's ever been held in this state in regards to consulting about the new planning scheme."
The new rules will be gazetted next week and will be put up for discussion among councils over the coming months.
But concerned residents say the plan only favours industry, and communities get the short straw because permits will not always be needed.
Tasmanian Planning Information Network’s Anne Harrison, of Blackmans Bay, believes neighbours won't be informed about new structures going up next to them under the new scheme.
She said there had been very little public consultation in recent years.
"If there's no permit required, they can just slap them up," she said.
"There's no obligations to tell people what's being done."