2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 81-167

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                25 MARCH 2014


The application was forwarded to the following external specialists:
    Traffic Engineering Expert (Beard Traffic Engineering)
    Economic Expert (Norling Consulting)
    Bushfire Expert (Rob Friend and Associates)
    Ecology Expert (BAAM Ecological Consultants)
    Good Quality Agricultural Land (Land Resource Assessment and Management)

Their assessments form part of this report.

6.2   Instruments for Statutory Assessment
Under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 the application must be assessed against each of the
following statutory planning instruments to the extent they are relevant to the development:
     State Planning Policies
     the South East Queensland Regional Plan
     State Planning Regulatory Provisions
     any Structure Plan or Master Plan in place for declared areas
     any Preliminary Approval Overriding the Planning Scheme for the land
     the Planning Schemes for the local government areas
     any Temporary Local Planning Instrument in place for the local government area
Of these, the statutory planning instruments relevant to this application are discussed in the
sections that follow.

6.3   State and Other Statutory Instruments
State Planning Policies

The following State Planning Policies are applicable to this application:
     State Planning Policy 1/92 Development and the Conservation of Agricultural Land
     State Planning Policy 2/02 Planning and Managing Development Involving Acid Sulfate
      Soils
     State Planning Policy 1/03 Mitigating the Adverse Impacts of Flood, Bushfire and Landslide
     State Planning Policy 4/10 Healthy Waters
     State Planning Policy 1/12 Protection of Queensland’s Strategic Cropping Land
With the exception of SPP4/10 and SPP 1/12, the above State Planning Policies have been
deemed by the Minister for Local Government and Planning as appropriately reflected in the local
government planning schemes and therefore do not warrant a separate assessment.

     State Planning Policy 4/10 Healthy Waters
The SPP seeks to ensure water quality objectives for new development are met in order to
protect environmental values. The stated outcomes sought by the policy include:

Development avoids adverse impacts on Queensland waters or, where this is not feasible,
adverse impacts are minimised and any residual adverse impacts offset.

Section 4.2 states that, in order to meet the outcomes of the Policy, development:




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