Minor Change Request report tewantin netball

Minor Change Test

An assessment against the meaning of minor change and a response about the proposed
application is provide below. The Planning Act 2016 defines a minor change as a change to the
approval that:

i. would not result in a substantially different development*;
      (*In determining whether the proposed change would result in substantially different development, the
      assessment manager or referral agency must consider the individual circumstances of the
      development, in the context of the change proposed.)

Schedule 1 of the Development Assessment Rules set outs provisions for a substantially different
development. A change may be considered to result in a substantially different development if the
proposed change results in any of the following outlined in Table 1 below.

Table 1 - Substantially different development test

 Provisions of Schedule 1 of the DA             Response
 Rules
     (a) Involves a new use                     There is no new use proposed onsite
     (b) results in the application             No new parcel of land is introduced
         applying to a new parcel of
         land; or
     (c) dramatically changes the               Although a new building is proposed, the scale and location of
         built form in terms of scale,          the building adjoins the existing netball courts and is similar in
         bulk and appearance; or                size to the recently developed Pickleball court building. It is
                                                considered the modification to the original approval does not
                                                dramatically change the scale, bulk or appearance of the
                                                overall development approved as part of the original TPC.
      (d) changes the ability of the            No change to the use approved.
          proposed development to
          operate as intended; or
      (e) removes a component that              No essential component of the development is proposed to be
          is integral to the operation of       removed.
          the development; or
      (f) significantly impacts on              The proposal does remove some carparking adjoining the
          traffic flow and the transport        courts, however Council’s sport and recreation officer advises
          network, such as increasing           that overflow parking can occur within the total site within the
          traffic to the site; or
                                                adjoining cricket, pickleball, bocce and tennis parking areas.
                                                Ongoing management of events by Council will manage any
                                                minor impacts.
      (g) introduces new impacts or             No new impacts or the severity of impacts is likely to result
          increase the severity of              from the plan modifications.
          known impacts; or
      (h) removes an incentive or               Does not remove an offset or incentive components of the
          offset component that would           development.
          have balanced a negative
          impact of the development;
          or
      (i) impacts on infrastructure             There is no additional impacts on infrastructure.
          provisions.

Given the above, the proposed change to the existing approval is a minor change in accordance
with Schedule 2 of the Planning Act 2016 and Schedule 1 of the Development Assessment Rules.