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                                            Noosa Shire Council
                                       Charges Resolution (No.8) 2024



Part 4                   Offset and refund for Council trunk
                         infrastructure

  11.         Infrastructure offset
11.1    Purpose

        Section 11 states the Council’s policy for calculating the establishment cost for an
        infrastructure offset for provision of trunk infrastructure. This section is to be also read in
        conjunction with the “Minister’s Guidelines and Rules”.

11.2    Application of section

        Section 11 applies where for a development, the Council has for a trunk infrastructure
        network:
                  (a)     requires trunk infrastructure to be provided under a necessary
                          infrastructure condition of a development approval, that services or is
                          planned to service premises other than the subject premises; and;
                   (b)    a levied infrastructure charge applies to the development.

11.3    Establishment cost for an infrastructure offset

                  The establishment cost for determining offsets for provision of trunk infrastructure
                  required in a necessary infrastructure condition shall be the establishment cost
                  identified in the LGIP or Netserv Plan and indexed to the reference date of the
                  issued infrastructure charges notice.

11.4    Recalculation of establishment cost for an infrastructure offset

        (1)       Where a notice is given by an applicant under s. 137 of the Planning Act
                  requesting a recalculation of the establishment cost for the trunk infrastructure
                  that is works, the recalculated amount shall be the pre-market estimate of the
                  work as follows: The pre-market estimate of work for the trunk infrastructure
                  contribution is the estimate expressed in dollars of the design and construction of
                  the work:
                  (a)      including the following:
                          (i)         the cost of planning and designing the work;
                          (ii)        the cost of survey and site investigation for the work;
                          (iii)       a cost under a construction contract for the work;
                          (iv)        a portable long service leave payment for a construction
                                      contract;
                          (v)         an insurance premium for the work;
                          (vi)        a Council inspection fee for the commencement and end of the
                                      maintenance period for the work;



                                  Council Resolution effective 15 August 2024                         Page 48 of 90