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
Whole of Shire        Climate   Change      Final draft of literature review.          Complete baseline (i.e. Present Day)       Finalise whole-of-Shire sectoral
Adaptation Plan
                                            Identifying key sectoral experts for        sectoral risk assessments for broader       baseline risk assessment with
                                             invitation to participate in sectoral       climate change plan.                        working groups.
                                             advisory working groups.                   Establish sub-working groups for           Commence sectoral climate risk
                                                                                         various infrastructure asset types.         assessments for each time horizon.
                                                                                                                                    Re-commence climate governance
                                                                                                                                     roadmap development
Business as Usual activities                General advice and advocacy.               General advice and advocacy.               General advice and advocacy.
                                            Customer enquiries.                        Customer enquiries.                        Customer enquiries.
                                            Demographic update for Council.
                                            Contribution     to    development
                                             application assessments.


Economic Development
Local    Economic        Plan    (LEP)      The strategic intent of the LEP and        Pivoted LEP activity to respond to         Leading and supporting the business
implementation                               the associated 68 actions continue to       COVID crisis and significant negative       community to re-open and to move
                                             be delivered by Council and its             economic impact.                            through revival and into the thrive
                                             partners. Detailed actions for this        Continuation of LEP implementation          stage.
                                             quarter listed in rows below.               with a focus on increased business         Focus on supporting the exciting
                                            A review of the LEP action plan will        communications,            marketing,       businesses and entities emerging
                                             commence in May 2020.                       economic information tools and              from the Peregian Digital Hub and
                                            Recent focus has been on crisis             grants uptake.                              across various sectors ie. Earthtech,
                                             response to the impact of COVID-19         Focus on supporting the many                Provectus Algae, Firetech Connect,
                                             pandemic on local businesses.               business groups to build capacity and       Helitak, Fireball International.
                                                                                         improving council interactions and         Finalise concept planning for the
                                                                                         consultation.                               expansion of the Digital Hub.
                                                                                                                                    Invest in the key activities of the
                                                                                                                                     NETA group - continuing to assess
                                                                                                                                     the opportunity for a Future Skills
                                                                                                                                     Learning Hub and roll-out of ‘Noosa
                                                                                                                                     as an education destination’.
Business Support and Development         Pre-COVID-19 (March 10)                        Continue to support all business           Focus on COVID recovery support
                                         Key relationships, support and event            groups including the operation of the       and ‘The road out’ strategy.
                                         attendance:                                     Business Roundtable.                       Digital Hub tenants supported to re-
                                                                                                                                     engage at the Hub and all Digital


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