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




Unitywater’s planning assumptions articulate the type, scale, location and timing of
development at a property level within the context of the development pipeline. As shown
conceptually in Figure 2, Unitywater’s planning assumptions capture existing and future
development determined by the Planning Scheme, Priority Development Area Development
Schemes, Master Plan, Structure Plans or Development Control Plans and subsequent
development approvals spatially at a property level through to 2056 and ultimate. Frequent
revisions and updates to Unitywater’s planning assumptions then ensure alignment with
current and approved development. Network demand forecasts are required to 2056 to
support Unitywater’s Treatment Services Plan.

For the purposes of the assessment of connection applications (by Unitywater and Private
Certifiers) and network planning, the Netserv Plan planning assumptions are published on
Unitywater’s website within a mapping application that allow a user to establish Unitywater’s
planning assumptions (e.g. type, scale, location and timing of dwellings and network demand)
for a property. An assessment of proposed network demand compared to forecast network
demand is then undertaken to determine consistency with Unitywater’s planning assumptions.




Figure 2 - Planning Assumptions and the Development Pipeline



2. Purpose

Under section 99BR of the South East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail
Restructuring) Act 2009, Part A of Unitywater’s Netserv Plan is required to be endorsed by
each participating council “as being consistent with the planning assumptions for its local
government area”. In addition, Netserv Plan planning assumptions must be consistent with
the SEQ Regional Plan. This Technical Note is intended to provide a guide on how the
information contained in this Technical Note was prepared, how it is used in DMaTT, how
assumptions are consistent with the Noosa Planning Scheme planning assumptions and the
SEQ Regional Plan and the resultant planning assumptions.




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