In the midst of the housing crisis, a shortage of planners to approve new developments is just one of the problems local governments have with staffing.
Despite the housing crisis , urban and town planners remain in short supply as councils struggle to fill essential roles.
"We find especially the skilled workers area, we are advertising positions and we're getting very little response," Mayor Tim Meyer said. Urban and town planners, engineers and building surveyors were in particular demand, with projects delayed and councils forced to recruit less skilled applicants in a range of roles.
The council is currently lodging an immigration application to sponsor an engineer, and has resorted to remote contractors for statutory planning work."As a councillor we sort of only get two phone calls, and that's people complaining about the roads, which you expect, but lately we get a lot of people saying their planning processes have been slowed and delayed," Cr Meyer said.
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