2015-01-12 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                        12 January 2015


                 Self assessable                                   Code assessment      Impact Assessment
                 Proponent                                         • Bounded            • Wider assessment
                 ensures                                             assessment only      against the
Current
                 responsibility for                                  against              environmental
levels    of
                 compliance                                          applicable codes     effects of
assessment
(based   on                                                        • Presumption in       development
IPA)                                                                 favour of          • Public notification
                                                                     approval             required
                                                                   • No discretionary
                                                                     decision making
                 Self assessable      Compliance assessable        Code assessable      Impact assessable
                 Proponent            • Technical assessment       • Removed the        • Unforeseen
                 ensures              • No referral                  presumption in       development
                 responsibility for   • No discretion allowed        favour of          • Public notification
  Levels of      compliance           • No ability to refuse         approval from        required
 assessment                                                          IPA
  under the                                                        • Presumption
    SPA                                                              favours policy
(Compliance                                                          noncompliance
 assessment                                                          resolved through
has not been                                                         balancing policy
applied in the                                                     • Requires
   Noosa                                                             discretionary
  Planning                                                           decision
  Scheme)                                                          • Is bounded
                                                                     assessment in
                                                                     that it may not
                                                                     consider the
                                                                     whole scheme
                 Accepted             Standard assessable          Merit assessable     Merit (notified)
                 Proponent            • Presumption in favour of   • Presumption        • Unforeseen
                 ensures                approval and must be         favours policy       development
                 responsibility for     approved if the            • Complex - non-     • Public notification
                 compliance             application complies         compliance           required
                                        with assessment              resolved through
                                        benchmarks.                  balancing policy
 Proposed
 Levels of                            • Assessment is against        outcomes
assessment
                                        assessment                 • Requires
 under the                              benchmarks which are         discretionary
  P&D Bill                              nominated in the             decision
                                        planning scheme –
                                        these are required to be
                                        objective in nature and
                                        most likely be largely
                                        technical in nature.
                                      • Include limited
                                        discretionary decision

On day 1 of commencement of the Act, self-assessable development, to the extent the
development complies with all applicable codes for the self-assessable development, will be
considered accepted development. If it does not comply with the self-assessable criteria it
becomes assessable development. This is a relatively simple transition.

The default position on day 1 is that all development currently subject to code assessment will be
subject to standard assessment. Where code assessable development is currently assessed
against criteria that have clearly articulated performance and acceptable outcomes Council is
able to easily transition the development to standard assessment. This is particularly
recommended where the development is located in the appropriate zone and with few or no
constraints.

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