2020-11-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                                          10 NOVEMBER 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES               RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                          CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
                                   Information sessions with industry         Amendments          underway      for
                                     reps held                                    improvement of workability and to
                                   First administrative amendment               align with State policies.
                                     already occurred                           Initiating monitoring of new scheme.
                                   Established baseline information for
                                     ongoing monitoring processes.
Whole of Shire Climate Change    Completed draft literature review.           Develop factsheets to provide to           Ensure alignment and cross-project
Response Plan                    Project plan, communications plan              stakeholder groups for discussion            support       with     Queensland
                                   and PCG charter endorsed by council          Convening stakeholder workshops              Government       emergency    risk
                                 Identified key sectoral experts/groups                                                      assessment project being led by
                                   for invitation to participate in                                                            Council’s Disaster Management
                                   stakeholder engagement.                                                                     Officer and QFES.
                                 Internal PCG meeting to confirm                                                           Continue stakeholder engagement
                                   stakeholders      and      stage     1                                                    Draft Climate Change Response
                                   engagement process                                                                          Plan
                                 Meeting with ZEN Inc on project
                                   scope and priorities
Business as Usual activities     General advice and advocacy.                 General advice and advocacy.               General advice and advocacy.
                                 Customer enquiries.                          Customer enquiries.                        Customer enquiries.
                                 Contribution      to      development
                                    application assessments.

Economic Development
Local Economic Plan (LEP)          The strategic intent of the LEP and        Implementation of the COVID                Next stage of the LEP review
implementation                       the associated 68 actions continue to        Business Recovery Framework that             including workshop sessions with
                                     be delivered by Council and its              includes: Destination Marketing,             Councillors and Business groups.
                                     partners.                                    COVID Safe business support and            Review of Business Roundtable and
                                   The LEP review has commenced with            monitoring, direct council business          adoption of a Charter
                                     the first phase focused on reviewing         support measures, infrastructure
                                     and understanding the current                investment, and re-skilling programs
                                     economic and business conditions.          Review of LEP and business survey
                                   Continued delivery of the COVID
                                     Response        Business     Support
                                     Frameworks and operation of the
                                     Business Roundtable.



                                                                                                                                               Page 72 of 113