2016-07-12 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     12 JULY 2016


      Each time the legislation has changed, it has created further complications and difficulties
      for local government to achieve the task of completing the required statutory document and
      at additional cost to do so for something that should otherwise be straight forward, fit for
      purpose and simple to undertake and achieve.
    On 20 November 2015, further legislative changes to SPA allowed local governments to
      request a Ministerial extension for having a conforming LGIP but limited the maximum
      extension period for a “cut-off” date to 30 June 2018. Council on 5 January 2016 made an
      extension request which was granted by the Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure
      Local Government and Planning on 28 January 2016 to a new LGIP “cut-off” date of 30
      June 2018.
2.    Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) – Purpose, Structure and Requirements
As described in the Statutory Guideline 03/14 ‘Local government infrastructure plans’:
“A LGIP is that part of a planning scheme that identifies the local government’s plans for trunk
infrastructure that are necessary to service urban development at the desired standard of service
(DSS) in a coordinated, efficient and financially sustainable manner” with its purpose being to:
    “integrate infrastructure planning with the land use planning identified in the planning
      scheme;
    provide transparency regarding a local government’s intentions for the provision of trunk
      infrastructure;
    enable a local government to estimate the cost of infrastructure provision to assist its long
      term financial planning;
    ensure that trunk infrastructure is planned and provided in an efficient and orderly manner;
      and
    provide a basis for the imposition of conditions about infrastructure on development
      approvals.”
The structure of a LGIP comprises a number of sections and requirements and is summarised as
follows:
i.    Preliminary
      This section simply states that the plan has been prepared in accordance with the SPA
      together with the purpose (as provided above), the structure of the document and the trunk
      infrastructure networks that are included. This is limited to the five networks for water
      supply, sewerage, stormwater, transport and public parks and land for community facilities.
      For the Noosa LGIP, the water supply and sewerage networks will not be included as these
      are now owned and operated by Unitywater under their Netserv plan (as distributor-retailer
      created under the “South East Queensland Water (Distribution and Retail Restructuring)
      Act 2009”). However, the Netserv plan must be consistent with the planning assumptions
      and PIA identified in the LGIP for extending the infrastructure networks.
ii.   Planning Assumptions
      The LGIP must state:
         assumptions about population and employment growth and the type, scale, location
           and timing of development;
         identify a summary of the existing and future projected urban residential and non-
           residential development by development type for a projection area in terms of
           dwellings, population, non-residential gross floor area (GFA) and employment; and
         summarise key assumptions used to prepare the projections (planned densities and
           demand generation rates).


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