2020-05-12 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                                                                                         12 MAY 2020


BRANCH ACTIVITIES                     RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS                            CURRENT PRIORITIES                           THE NEXT QUARTER
Building and Plumbing
Legislative Review                       Delivery of         new legislative           Continue to develop and provide             Ongoing - Continue to provide
                                          information meetings for plumbing              educational material and advice to           information sessions and industry
                                          contractors, consultants and building          the public and industry on legislative       meetings throughout the year.
                                          certifiers.                                    changes.                                    Promote next contractors meeting
                                                                                                                                      proposed September 2020.
Business as Usual activities             New 10 day time frames are                    Continue to promote Council’s               Implement agreed changes of
                                          challenging for plumbing approvals,            obligation in reporting and recording        processes to ensure Councils record
                                          continuing to undertake process                legislative compliance obligations for       management systems and the
                                          improvements to achieve legislative            external and internal customers.             Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
                                          timeframes.                                   Develop       standard    compliance         record management systems interact
                                         Maintaining resourcing commitments             processes within the Branch including        in   the    collection   of    record
                                          for the delivery of one stop shop              staff        compliance       training       management by both parties.
                                          building and plumbing service                  requirements.
                                          counter, complaint management and
                                          legislative compliance obligations in
                                          meeting set budgetary approvals.
                                         Maintaining legislative time frames
                                          for the delivery of Council services for
                                          field inspections and plumbing and
                                          building application management.
                                         Hosted meeting with the Australian
                                          Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
                                         Delivery of monthly reporting to
                                          Treasury Qld State Government and
                                          Australian Bureau of Statistics
                                          timeframes on track.
Plumbing    and    Building  Audit,      Mail out to businesses within stage           Mail outs to customers have now             Stage two, of the Backflow
Educational Programmes                    two of Council’s Backflow prevention           recommenced (after the COVID-19)             prevention device audit programme
and Swimming Pool Immersions              Device Audit Programme (briefly                and agreed audits are being                  is around 45% completed, next
                                          suspended – COVID-19).                         prepared between customers and               quarters    expectation   is  65%
                                         Continue to investigate swimming               Council.                                     complete.(recommencement      from
                                          pool immersions as requested by                                                             COVID-19).
                                          Queensland Health.                                                                         Council has developed swimming
                                                                                                                                      pool brochures and signage for
                                                                                                                                      commercial and domestic swimming
                                                                                                                                      pool and spa owners. Swimming pool

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