OPW12.0139.01 Application to change existing approval - forms & plans · OPW12/0139

 

Sunshine Coast

Regional Council

OPW 12/0139

 

The following is an extract from the Sustainable Planning Act
2009 (Chapter 7).

MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE, RECONFIGURING A LOT &

OPERATIONAL WORKS

Division 8 Appeals to court relating to
development applications and
approvals

461 Appeals by applicants

(1)

(2)

(3)

462
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

463
(1)

An applicant for a development application may appeal

to the court against any of the following—

(a) the refusal, or the refusal in part, of the
development application;

(b) any condition of a development approval, another

matter stated in a development approval and the

identification or inclusion of a code under section

242;

the decision to give a preliminary approval when a

development permit was applied for;

(d) the length of a period mentioned in section 341;

(e) adeemed refusal of the development application.

An appeal under subsection (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d) must

be started within 20 business days (the applicant’s

appeal period) after—

(a) if a decision notice or negotiated decision notice
is given—the day the decision notice or
negotiated decision notice is given to the
applicant; or

(b) otherwise—the day a decision notice was
required to be given to the applicant.

An appeal under subsection (1)(e) may be started at

any time after the last day a decision on the matter

should have been made.

(c)

Appeals by submitters—general
A submitter for a development application may appeal
to the court only against—
(a) the part of the approval relating to the
assessment manager's decision about any part of
the application requiring impact assessment
under section 314; or
the part of the approval relating to the
assessment manager's decision under section
327.
To the extent an appeal may be made under
subsection (1), the appeal may be against 1 or more of
the following—
(a) the giving of a development approval;
(b) any provision of the approval including—
(i) a condition of, or lack of condition for, the
approval; or
(ii) the length of a period mentioned in section

341 for the approval.

However, a submitter may not appeal if the submitter—

(a) withdraws the submission before the application

is decided; or
(b) has given the assessment manager a notice
under section 339(1)(b)(ii).

The appeal must be started within 20 business days (the
submitter’s appeal period) after the decision notice or
negotiated decision notice is given to the submitter.

(b)

Additional and extended appeal rights for submitters
for particular development applications

This section applies to a development application to
which chapter 9, part 7 applies.

PD-DA-FM1420s/3-18/11/2011

(2)

(3)

(4)

464
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

465
(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

466

(1)

Appeal Rights

SUSTAINABLE PLANNING ACT 2009 & SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
REGULATION 2009

A submitter of a properly made submission for the

application may appeal to the court about a referral

agency's response made by a prescribed concurrence
agency for the application.

However, the submitter may only appeal against a

referral agency's response to the extent it relates to—

(a) if the prescribed concurrence agency is the chief

executive (environment)—development for an

aquacultural ERA; or

if the prescribed concurrence agency is the chief

executive (fisheries)—development that is—

(i) a material change of use of premises for
aquaculture; or

(ii) operational work that is the removal, damage

or destruction of a marine plant.

Despite section 462(1), the submitter may appeal

against the following matters for the application even if

the matters relate to code assessment—

(a) a decision about a matter mentioned in section
462(2) if it is a decision of the chief executive
(fisheries);

(b) a referral agency's
subsection (2).

(b)

response mentioned in

Appeals by advice agency submitters

Subsection (2) applies if an advice agency, in its

response for an application, told the assessment

manager to treat the response as a properly made
submission.

The advice agency may, within the limits of its

jurisdiction, appeal to the court about—

(a) any part of the approval relating to the assessment
manager's decision about any part of the
application requiring impact assessment under
section 314; or

(b) any part of the approval relating to the assessment
manager's decision under section 327.

The appeal must be started within 20 business days

after the day the decision notice or negotiated decision

notice is given to the advice agency as a submitter.

However, if the advice agency has given the

assessment manager a _ notice under section

339(1)(b)(ii), the advice agency may not appeal the
decision.

Appeals about decisions relating to extensions for
approvals

For a development approval given for a development
application, a person to whom a notice is given under
section 389, other than a notice for a decision under
section 386(2), may appeal to the court against the
decision in the notice.

The appeal must be started within 20 business days
after the day the notice of the decision is given to the
person.

Also, a person who has made a request under section
383 may appeal to the court against a deemed refusal of
the request.

An appeal under subsection (3) may be started at any
time after the last day the decision on the matter should
have been made.

Appeals about decisions relating to permissible
changes

For a development approval given for a development
application, the following persons may appeal to the
court against a decision on a request to make a
permissible change to the approval—

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