2016-08-09 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  9 AUGUST 2016


SEQ competes directly with other Australian regions, as well as major North American, European
and Asian cities. The SEQ region therefore needs to provide lifestyle and residential choices, as
well as attractive working environments that appeal to new business founders, researchers and
people with scarce creative, technical, technological and trade skills who want to live and work
where they choose. …
9.3 - Enterprise Opportunities
Principle:
Provide sufficient land for business and industry to enable diversified, broad-based, future
economic and employment growth across the region.
Policies:
9.3.1    Secure strategically located land and facilitate planning for future business and industry
         uses to meet current and future needs of business and industry requirements, including
         long-term provision beyond the timeframe of the SEQ Regional Plan.
9.3.2    Protect sites and areas suitable for enterprise location from incompatible development, as
         identified in the SEQ Regional Plan Economic Development Opportunities Profiles, when
         making a decision on a planning scheme amendment or development application.
9.3.3 Protect and ensure the long-term security of transport terminals (including ports), other
       utilities and special uses.
9.3.4 Encourage the relocation of large-scale industrial, warehousing, transport and storage
       businesses from inner suburbs to release these sites for higher and better use.
Notes:
Providing a broad range of economic and employment opportunities in each part of the region will
reduce long distance commuting and employment difficulties, and help grow local business.
Additional lands will be required to ensure greater subregional self-containment of industry and
business growth. An increasingly pressing need exists to provide sites for regional logistics
operations that will support the rapidly growing population and emerging industries on the Sunshine
Coast.
Scarce land for business and industry at strategic locations must not be squandered on land uses
and activities that may have many other locational options. Strategically located land for existing
and future business and industry use should be protected for the long-term from inappropriate use
and the encroachment of incompatible land uses. Any proposal that could erode the future use of
such land for industry and business purposes should be reviewed against the long-term business
and employment needs for the land.
Substantial undeveloped lands remain at the NBC. Medical uses are consistent across more than
12ha of land in Precincts E1, E2, E6 & E7 (which are currently undeveloped) and within Precincts
E3, E4 and E5 (which are currently partially developed). Refer to Figure 9 below.




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