2014-03-03 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                    3 MARCH 2014


2     REVIEW OF PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT INSTRUMENTS OF DELEGATION –
      FURTHER REPORT

Author            Coordinator, Development Assessment, Kerri Coyle
                  Community & Development

Index             ECM/ Subject/ Governance and Executive/ Delegations of Authority

Attachments       1.       2014-20 – Building Services
                  2.       2014-22 – Integrated Planning
                  3.       2014-35 – Sustainable Planning



REPORT

A report on this issue was considered by the Planning & Organisation Committee on 25 February
2014 (refer to Item 1, page 4) and was subsequently referred to the upcoming General
Committee meeting.

During the course of discussions, Councillors indicated that they considered it was difficult to
contemplate the full extent of the matters proposed to be delegated to officers. Councillors
indicated that to assist their understanding it would be beneficial to have a range of development
applications referred to them for review, with the opportunity for any councillor to request a matter
to be considered at a Council meeting. This referral process would then be reviewed after 6
months. A number of grammatical and consistency issues were also raised with the delegation
instruments.

In the circumstances the Committee requested a further report be presented to the General
Committee meeting for 3 March 2014.

Planning & Development Issues

The current planning and development delegations address a range of issues, including
primarily:

   development applications where Council is the assessment manager and can decide the
    application;
   applications lodged with a private building certifier and Council is identified as a concurrence
    agency for the application (e.g. setback, building height variations for dwelling houses);
   enforcement of pool safety standards, budget accommodation building fire safety standards
    (e.g. backpackers), residential service building standards (e.g. aged care facilities) and
    breaches of the Building Act;
   enforcement of The Noosa Plan or a development approval;
   the commencement and/or conduct of an appeal or legal proceeding;
   planning and development searches and information to members of the public.




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