2016-08-15 General Committee Agenda

  GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                           15 AUGUST 2016


                                 The full complicated PIP with ICS and 3rd party review and approval process
                                   (but with independent reviewer in lieu of QCA) re-imposed for LGIP’s in 2014
                                   legislative amendment through the Statutory Guidelines 03/14 and 04/14 but
                                   also added a second independent reviewer review prior to State 2nd review.
What is the desired      That a simple and common sense review and amendment of the Statutory Guidelines
outcome sought?          03/14 and 04/14 for Local Government Infrastructure Plans be made to address the
                         above mentioned concerns to remove the current unnecessary and irrelevant
                         requirements costing Local Governments and their communities’ unnecessary
What are the impacts     expense.
(positive or negative)
on local government?     If the unnecessary requirements were removed, it would:
                            greatly reduce the amount of time, resources, effort and costs to local government;

                            enable concentration on detailing the future infrastructure requirements and costs
                              necessary in providing infrastructure for development growth;

                            have absolutely no impact on the purpose of a LGIP as described in sections 2.2
                              to 2.4 of the Statutory Guideline 03/04 since this all relates to future infrastructure
                              costs required for future development;

                            have no impact for the Development Industry since the legislation has set the
                              permissible maximum charges, enabled establishment costs for future works for
                              offsets to be revalued by development and enabled conversion applications of non-
                              trunk infrastructure to become trunk infrastructure that is not currently in a LGIP;
                              and

                            drastically speed up the ability for local governments to actually achieve LGIPs
                              thereby promoting the State Government’s desired direction for planning reform
                              and not “at the expense of community participation or the role of local government”
                              per the Deputy Premier’s statement May 2015 contained on the department’s
                              website.


LGAQ comment




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