2016-08-15 General Committee Agenda

  GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                        15 AUGUST 2016



                                                                                             ATTACHMENT 1
Submitting council / organisation
Noosa Shire Council
Date of council / organisation resolution             LGAQ Policy Executive district
18 August 2016                                        District 2 – South East Queensland North

Number and title of      - Planning Powers – Amend, Simplify and Remove Unnecessary Irrelevant
motion                   Statutory Requirements for Local Government Infrastructure Plans


Motion                   That the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) make representations
                         to the State Government seeking amendments to the Statutory Guidelines with respect
                         to Local Government Infrastructure Plans (LGIPs) in order to remove the unnecessary
                         cost, resource and time burdens reimposed on local governments, with this to be
                         achieved by:
                         a) removing obsolete requirements for itemised detailed costing of existing assets
                            plus determination of network catchment demand allocations that are irrelevant
                            under the current adopted infrastructure charges regime (these former “PIP &
                            ICS” requirements were necessary only for determining charge rates and were thus
                            discarded in the 2011 legislative amendments on introduction of adopted charges);
                         b) removing the requirement for third party reviews of draft LGIPs by an appointed
                            reviewer (note that this matter was raised under motion 28 at the 118th LGAQ
                            Conference to no effect); and
                         c) simplifying all LGIP review and approval processes to accord with a single process
                            as currently described for an “interim local government infrastructure plan
                            amendment” - this being identical for “making and amending a planning scheme
                            policy”.
Background               Local government infrastructure planning and charging framework has been subjected
                         to continual legislative change since the commencement of the Integrated Planning Act
                         1997 and Sustainable Planning Act 2009 to the present day. However, each time the
                         legislation has changed, it has created further complications and difficulties for local
                         government to achieve the task of completing the required statutory documents and at
                         significant additional cost to do so for something that should otherwise be straight
                         forward, fit for purpose and simple to undertake and achieve.

                         The current adopted charges regime commenced in July 2011 applying infrastructure
                         charges through local government resolutions with maximum charge levels capped
                         under the State Planning Regulatory Provision (adopted charges). These resolutions
                         can also incorporate all the trunk infrastructure network planning details otherwise
                         required in a Priority Infrastructure Plan (PIP) up until the cut-off date for when a new
                         current Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) must be in place.

                         It should be specifically noted that the pre 2011 PIPs (introduced by legislative
                         amendments in September 2004) required full costing of existing and future trunk
                         infrastructure along with demand catchment apportionment specifically for the purpose
                         of developing Infrastructure Charges Schedules in determining the level of
                         infrastructure charges that development were to contribute towards each trunk network.
                         These PIPs required 3rd party review by the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA)
                         undertaken and paid for by the State Government as part of their review. Due to the
                         complicated, time consuming, resource and cost hungry processes involved to prepare
                         these PIPs with ICS’s, only a handful of Local Government PIPs ever made it to the
                         QCA review stage that occurred during 2008-2009. Following these QCA reviews, this
                         process then ceased with commencement of further legislative reviews and changes
                         for infrastructure planning and charges.




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