Unitywater Noosa Netserv Plan - Planning Assumptions · Attachment 1 - Draft Technical Note on Noosa Shire Netserv Plan Planning Assumptions

                                                     l   Noosa Netserv Plan Planning Assumptions June 2024




1. Background
Unitywater has prepared new planning assumptions and demand forecasts for the Netserv
Plan based on the Noosa Planning Scheme using our Demand Modeller and Tracking Tool
(DMaTT) that support network planning and connection application assessment functions
within Unitywater.

The DMaTT tool allows for the incorporation of planning, development, demographic and
infrastructure knowledge and information within an automated demand modelling, forecasting
and tracking tool. The key purpose of developing planning assumptions and demand forecasts
using the DMaTT tool is that it facilitates the development of robust, consistent, transparent
and repeatable planning assumptions that are supported by evidence-based decision making
and validated assumptions. The DMaTT tool prepares baseline, projected and ultimate
development data for dwellings, population, floor space, employment and network demand
(Equivalent Person, Equivalent Tenement or any other demand unit). This information is at a
property level of detail and can be summarised and displayed at any catchment scale (i.e.
locality or water supply catchment).

The DMaTT tool has several prepared information inputs which the tool uses to prepare
forecast models. Figure 1 show’s conceptually how DMaTT forecast models use various
information inputs to prepare growth forecasts.




Figure 1 - Graphical representation of DMaTT Forecast Models




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