2015-03-31 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   31 MARCH 2015


The DMaTT has been developed in-house by UnityWater over the last few years and Noosa
Council officers have assisted in refining the tool for its application to the Noosa shire areas since
October 2014.

The DMaTT has the ability to prepare baseline, projected and ultimate development data for
dwellings, population, non-residential floor space, employment and network demand. This
information is at a property level of detail and can be summarised and displayed at any scale
(e.g. Priority Infrastructure Area, planning scheme locality, social plan locality, business centres,
catchments for infrastructure grant applications etc). As such, it is potentially a very useful tool
for not only UnityWater’s purposes but also Council’s.

2.    Potential Application of DMaTT

DMaTT will be used to provide demand projections for network master plans, the Netserv Plan
and UnityWater’s Capital Works Plan as well as their revenue forecasting. It will also be used by
UnityWater for scenario planning (including in the face of different growth projections or
development scenarios/proposals), tracking of demand and development approvals and to inform
future water supply and sewerage service areas.

UnityWater considers that across their service area DMaTT will be useful in highlighting areas of
spare capacity in existing trunk infrastructure in order to inform discussions about integrating land
use and infrastructure planning. This may prove helpful in the preparation of the next planning
scheme. Further, it could also be a useful tool for Council’s forward planning in infrastructure
delivery, economic development and community development.

3.    How does it work?

DMaTT relies on various information inputs to prepare growth forecasts. These include:
 Existing land use data: rigorous assessment based on Council’s rating data, air photos,
   ground-truthing, and online business data;
 Development approvals: initially from planning on line but then cross-checked by
   development planners;
 Planning scheme zones, constraints and development parameters (for instance allowable
   land uses, residential density, site cover/GFA limitations and overlays);
 Infrastructure Agreements;
 Population and GFA projections provided by Department of Treasury and Trade (particularly
   the medium series population projections which are due to be updated later this year); and
 GIS data showing easements and other forms of development constraints.

Using this data it determines the ultimate development possible under the current planning
scheme, sequences development (in 5 year increments based on supply and market realities)
and calculates the projected development demand on infrastructure.




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