It said the proposal was “too big for the site and the benefits it will bring are significantly outweighed by the disbenefits it creates”.<\/p>\n
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A government-commissioned planning report found the stadium would be “too big” for its proposed location. (Supplied: MPC)<\/p>\n
The fate of the stadium now hinges on a crucial vote in the upper house of Tasmania’s parliament in December.<\/p>\n
Hobart’s planned AFL stadium ‘too big’, report finds<\/a><\/p>\n The proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium in Hobart should not proceed, a long-awaited assessment from the Tasmanian Planning Commission recommends.<\/p>\n While the Liberal government and Labor opposition support the project, they need three extra upper house independents to get it over the line<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Vica Bayley and Cassy O’Connor from the Tasmanian Greens, along with independents Peter George and Kristie Johnston, travelled to Melbourne.<\/p>\n At AFL House, they met with the AFL’s new chief operating officer Tom Harley, a former Geelong captain and ex-chief executive of the Sydney Swans.<\/p>\n Mr Bayley described it as a “constructive, productive and very civil” meeting with a “pretty frank exchange of views and ideas and perspectives”.<\/p>\n The stadium is a condition of Tasmania’s AFL team joining the national league. (ABC News: Kate Nickels)<\/p>\n He said the politicians reiterated their support for the team, but outlined their concerns about the stadium’s impact on Hobart and Tasmania.<\/p>\n “We have a budget crisis, we’ve got spiralling debt, we’ve got a whole raft of issues and we also have two existing stadiums where AFL is [already] played,” Mr Bayley said.<\/p>\n “So we put the perspective very clearly, as reflected in the taskforce report, that the team should be stood up, it should play in the national competition.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n