2016_17_A_Year_in_Review

Corporate Plan Theme 4: Long term planning for Noosa Shire
“Noosa Shire is well managed and sustainable”
Key achievements as we work towards our long term goal include:

   Council undertook significant work on the                   Council has adopted the Noosa Local Disaster
    development of the new Planning Scheme during                Management Plan which guides our responses to
    2016/17. Council adopted the New Noosa Plan                  natural disasters. Council has also undertaken
    Discussion Paper for the purposes of public                  considerable work in developing our response to
    consultation and undertook an extensive                      natural disasters including undertaking disaster
    community engagement process to seek feedback.               management exercises to train our staff. This was
    Council also finalised a range of studies to support         put to the test with the arrival of the remnants of
    the development of the new Planning Scheme                   Cyclone Debbie in February 2017. Our
    including:                                                   management of that response was good and our
    o Resources and Minerals Planning Study                      Local Disaster Management Plan was able to deal
                                                                 with that scenario. Council was also successful in
    o Study into Agriculture and Agricultural Land in
                                                                 obtaining State funding to install new flood alert
         Noosa Shire
                                                                 stations at a cost of $206,000.
    o On-Site Effluent Disposal Noosa Shire Study
                                                                Council adopted a Transport Policy and Transport
    o Housing Needs Assessment                                   Strategy following extensive community
   Council was able to provide significant input into the       consultation. This was one of the signature long-
    ongoing development of the draft South-East                  term pieces of planning for our community
    Queensland Regional Plan which will achieve a                undertaken in 2016/17. There were two rounds of
    good outcome for the Noosa community.                        community consultation including targeted
   Council undertook a significant review of our                consultation with key stakeholders. One of the
    infrastructure plans to enable us to meet new                challenges for 2017/18 is the implementation of that
    legislative requirements for the imposition of               Strategy. Also during 2016/17, Council successfully
    contributions from developers towards the cost of            delivered its Christmas and Easter free holiday bus
    infrastructure.                                              program.
   Council adopted its new Corporate Plan which will           Council adopted an Asset Management Plan
    guide key corporate decision making for the next 20          Roadmap in 2016/17. The roadmap sets out the
    years. The Corporate Plan was developed following            priorities for developing more robust long-term
    a series of Councillor workshops analysing future            asset management plans and ensuring that asset
    trends and developed a new vision – “Noosa Shire -           management becomes more central to our decision
    different by nature”.                                        making processes. Converting this roadmap into
                                                                 action is also one of the challenges for 2017/18.