2015-06-29 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                      29 JUNE 2015


     2                   STATE PLANNING REFORM
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                              Principal Strategic Planner, Rowena Skinner
                                    Planning & Infrastructure Department

Index                               ECM/ Subject/ Planning Instruments/State Planning

Attachments                         1.   Timeline
                                    2.   Summary of Better Planning Directions Paper


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not Applicable.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Principal Strategic Planner to the General Committee Meeting
dated 29 June 2015 and authorise the Chief Executive Officer to:
A.                       Make a submission to the Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources Parliamentary
                         Committee on:
                         1.   the Planning and Development (Planning for Prosperity) Bill 2015;
                         2.   the Planning and Development (Planning for Prosperity               -   Consequential
                              Amendments) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015; and
                         3.   the Planning and Development (Planning Court) Bill 2015;
                         with that submission to be based on Council’s previous submission in January 2015 on the
                         earlier versions of those Bills; and
B.                       Make a submission to the Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning in
                         response to the Better Planning for Queensland Directions Paper in accordance with the
                         issues outlined in Attachment 2 of this report.


REPORT
This report provides Council with an update on proposals for planning legislative reform by both
the Queensland Government and the shadow cabinet. It recommends that Council make
submissions to both proposals. A timeline is provided as Attachment 1 which is designed to
give a brief summary of events.

1.                       Planning and Development (Planning for Prosperity) Bill 2015

Council will recall that in November 2014, the former Deputy Premier introduced the following
three Bills to Parliament:
•                        the Planning and Development Bill 2014;
•                        the Planning and Development (Consequential) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill
                         2014; and
•                        the Planning and Environment Court Bill 2014.
These Bills were still to be considered when the Parliament was disbanded after the calling of a
State election.



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