Final Town Planning Report - 47 Goodchap Street

4.4.       STATE ASSESSMENT REFERRAL AGENCY
The State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA), introduced on 1 July 2013, seeks to deliver a
coordinated, whole-of-government approach to the State’s assessment of development applications. The
State Development Assessment Provisions (SDAP) is an outcome of SARA and a statutory instrument made
under the Act which sets out matters of interest of the state for development assessment, where the chief
executive of administering the Act is the assessment manager or a referral agency.
Importantly, the SDAP provide assessment benchmarks for the assessment by the chief executive officer or
a referral agency and provides applicants with the opportunity to address performance criteria to
demonstrate that a development appropriately manages any impacts on a matter of state interest, and/or
protects a development from impacts of matters of State interest.
A review of the SARA referral triggers under the Development Assessment Mapping System (DAMS)
identified the following matters of State interest applicable over the site:
▪   Coastal Protection
    ‒    Coastal management district
    ‒    Coastal area – erosion prone area
▪   Water resources
    ‒    Water resource planning area boundaires
An extract of the SARA mapping can be seen in Figure 6.
Figure 6 – Extract of SARA Mapping




Although the Coastal management district overlay is triggered, this is likely due to a mapping error as the
overlay is only located along the property boundary and not within the site itself. As confirmed by an
assessment of the proposed development against the State Assessment criteria for the relevant referral
agency, no SARA referral is required.




URBIS                                                       OUTLINE OF STATE AND REGIONAL LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK AND
FINAL TOWN PLANNING REPORT - 47 GOODCHAP STREET                                                          ASSESSMENT   11