2019-02-12 Attachment 1 to Item 7 - Short Term Accom Online Platform Issues Paper

5.        Key Challenges for Council
5.1       Current Planning Control Constraints
Council administers the region’s town planning legislation, and plays a vital role in planning for and
managing the sustainable development of the region. The Queensland Government also plays a
role, establishing the planning framework through legislation (Planning Act 2016), and monitoring its
operation.

The Planning Act 2016 was assented to on 25 May 2016 after being passed by the Legislative
Assembly earlier that month. In conjunction with the pre-eminent legislation, there is a hierarchy of
regulatory instruments which establish the land use planning system, roles and responsibilities.
Specifically, the Planning Act 2016 facilitates and empowers setting of regulatory matters,
establishes rules for certain processes (via statutory instruments).

The new suite of legislation was intended to focus on key areas such as:
    enabling better strategic outcomes and high quality development outcome,
    ensuring effective public participation and engagement in the planning framework,
    creating an open, transparent and accountable planning system that delivers investment and
     community confidence,
    creating legislation that has a practical structure and clearly expresses how land use planning
     and development assessment will be done in Queensland, and
    supporting local governments to adapt and adopt the changes.

Council plays a vital role in land use planning, ensuring that land use is planned for and executed
to:
 ensure appropriate density of land use,
    promote and enhance the quality of the environment,
    make safe and attractive places to live and work,
    improve accessibility to jobs, homes and services across through improvement of opportunities
     for walking, cycling and the use of high quality public transport,
    promote good design in development so as to achieve high environmental standards and
     optimum social benefits,
    strategise for future housing demand and availability of suitable land,
    consider the current and future level and capacity of infrastructure, services and facilities – this
     includes public and private amenity space, green space and open space,
    acknowledge the desirability of using land efficiently and reducing, and adapting to, the impacts
     of climate change, and
    retain the characteristics of the area, including the current and proposed mix of land uses.




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