2017-02-07 Planning and Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                              7 FEBRUARY 2017


The Queensland Government has also released a range of publications in support of the draft
plan. The list below includes those supporting documents along with the current and draft
regional plans. This report does not address those additional documents as they contain only
supporting information and have no regulatory effect.




The plan commences with a 50-year aspirational vision that is framed from ‘megatrends’ relative
to future influences on South East Queensland. Queensland will be recognised globally as a
unique subtropical destination for people to live in, work in, invest in and visit. References are
made to increased housing and lifestyle choices, effective transport networks and global
competitiveness. Both cities and hinterland/rural areas are acknowledged. The balance of
ShapingSEQ has a 25 year span out to 2041. Though the plan will be finalised in 2017, the end
year of 2041 will remain.
The next 25 years are expressed as goals (relating to 5 themes) and a narrative about the future
of 4 sub-regions. Noosa Shire is paired with Sunshine Coast Region to form the Northern Sub-
region. The 5 themes are Grow, Prosper, Connect, Sustain and Live.
For each Goal there are a range of strategies. Initial community feedback sought earlier this year
has informed the strategies. Under Grow, there are for example strategies for focusing densities
around centres and encouraging diversity of housing choice.
Other strategies of interest include –
   more emphasis on promoting public and active transport;
   promoting high value export oriented businesses;
   biodiversity corridors and values based on newer information;
   more emphasis on protecting regional landscapes and natural assets;
   more emphasis on design outcomes; and
   more monitoring of outcomes in future.
All of these are appropriate and supported.
ShapingSEQ uses Queensland Treasury forecasting (medium series) to nominate likely
population growth for each local government area and the dwelling numbers necessary to
accommodate that growth. Although these figures are for the next 25 years, the plan notes that
local government planning schemes must provide a rolling supply of land for development to
accommodate the next 15 years. (Note the draft State Planning Policy nominated a 10 – 15 year
horizon for residential land supply which represents an inconsistency in policy.) The plan also
forecasts job numbers that form the basis of employment planning benchmarks nominated in the
plan.
South East Queensland is predicted to grow from 3.4 million to almost 5.4 million. Future land
supply is catered for by an additional 8,200ha of urban land on top of the additional 13,600 added
since 2009. Most of the new Urban Footprint is in 3 new growth areas located east of Beerwah,

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