2022-05-10 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                           10 MAY 2022


6.   REPORTS FOR NOTING BY THE COMMITTEE


4    PLANNING APPLICATIONS DECIDED BY DELEGATED AUTHORITY – MARCH 2022

Author           Development Assessment Manager, Kerri Coyle
                 Environment and Sustainable Development Department

Index            ECM/Subject/ All Applications

Attachments      1.    Decisions issued under Delegated Authority


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report includes a summary of development applications decided under delegation by officers for
March 2022. For the month of March 2022 there were 42 applications decided including a range of
Material Change of Use, Reconfiguring a Lot, Operational Works, Building Works and applications for
which Council is a referral agency.

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Development Assessment Manager to the Planning & Environment
Committee Meeting dated 10 May 2022, regarding planning applications that have been decided by
delegated authority.


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)   the approval of an application where there is substantial non-compliance with a stated policy of
     the Council or a high order provision of the Planning Scheme being a desired environmental
     outcome, or an overall outcome of a code;
c)   the refusal of any application where Council is the assessment manager;
d)   requests for change representations, and change applications to change or delete conditions that
     were imposed by Council at an Ordinary Meeting or a Special Meeting;
e)   and an application for a proposed development of significant community interest.
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 the 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 applications reported to Council for a decision.
Attachment 1 lists applications that are decided by delegated authority during the month of March 2022
(excluding applications seeking to remove a tree(s) adjacent to a building or structure).



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