Victorian Government Applauded for Changes to Retail Planning Laws.

The Bulky Goods Retailers Association (BGRA) today congratulated the Baillieu Government on sweeping reforms to Victoria’s retail planning regime affecting large format retailers.

The reforms, endorsed by the recently released Productivity Commission’s final report from their inquiry into the “Economic Structure and Performance of the Australian Retail Industry” is a significant step in the freeing up of the complex and anti‐competitive planning laws which retailers have had to endure…