PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED BY DELEGATED AUTHORITY - DECEMBER 2024 · Report

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING                                        11 FEBRUARY 2025


8.1     PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED BY DELEGATED AUTHORITY - DECEMBER
        2024


Author            Development Assessment Manager, Patrick Murphy
                  Development & Regulation Department
Index             ECM/Subject/All Applications
Attachments       1.   ATTACHMENT 1 - PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED BY
                       DELEGATED AUTHORITY - DECEMBER 2024


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Development Assessment Manager to the General
Committee Meeting 11 February 2025 regarding applications that have been decided by delegated
authority for December 2024 as per Attachment 1 to the Report.


REPORT
The Local Government Act 2009 allows, by resolution, a local government to delegate its powers
to the Mayor, CEO, a standing committee or a joint standing committee and the CEO to delegate
those powers to another employee of Council.
Under the current delegations for the Planning Act 2016 the ability to manage, assess and decide a
range of development applications are delegated to officers with the exception of the following which
are reported to Council for a decision:
a. An application for a variation request mentioned in section 61 of the Planning Act 2016 to vary the
effect of the Planning Scheme
b. An application which is for an inconsistent use as defined in the Planning Scheme;
c. An application for a proposed development where more than 30 submissions have been received
during the notification part objecting to the proposed development;
d. An extension of an approval that was made under a superseded Planning Scheme (i.e. pre- Noosa
Plan 2020) and/or where there is a resolution of Council to amend the Planning Scheme in a way
that is relevant to the approval;
e. An impact assessable application involving the clearing of vegetation which is mapped as being in
a area of biodiversity significance on the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Map and
containing an endangered regional ecosystem, except in circumstances where the clearing is exempt
clearing:
f. The removal or demolition of a structure or place identified within the Planning Scheme’s Heritage
and Character Overlay Map;
g. A development where Council is the applicant requiring impact assessment.

It should be noted though that due to the strict time frames of the Planning Act 2016, officers
under the current delegations have the ability to decide an application where the application has th
e potential for ‘deemed approval’. In accordance with the current delegations, a wide range
of development applications are decided by Council officers each month, with a limited number of a
pplications reported to Council for a decision.

Attachment 1 lists applications that are decided by delegated authority during the month of