Planning Applications Decided By Delegated Authority – November 2025

Brian Stockwell33:17

Councillor Lorentson would you like to close? No, thank you. I'll put the motion those in favour. That's unanimous. Thank you Clive. Thanks Clive. So we move on then to item 8.3 which is planning application decided by delegated authority in December 2025. And we have Tim Dalton with us who I presume is currently acting as the manager of.

Hello everybody. Okay so the Local Disaster Management Plan has been brought up for Council endorsement today. It's been reviewed in accordance with the Disaster Management Act which requires councils to maintain an up-to-date plan that supports effective disaster management across the local area. Whilst I would like to note it's not actually a Council report, it is an LDMG report, but it's provided to Council as a courtesy so that they're aware of the planning and also to make sure Council complies with our legislative requirement under the act to ensure that we have a current plan. Full the last assessment of the plan occurred in 2023 and this current review focuses primarily on incorporating machinery change of government changes and introducing a substantially improved format to make it easier for future updates. A full comprehensive review of the plan is scheduled for after the State disaster management plan and it's expected to be released later in the latter half of 2026 so it'll probably be early 2027 when we do another full review of the our disaster management plan. The was completed though in consultation with our emergency management coordinator and the executive officer to the district management group and the plan has been considered by the Local Disaster Management Group and endorsed at their meeting on Ordinary Meeting in November 2025. Since that endorsement, though, an error has been identified on page seven where the formatting somehow has we've missed we've got photo of the Mayor but we've missed the mayor's name and title so I would just like to move have someone move an amendment for me if possible that we could that allows the CEO to approve minor changes like that to the formatting. The report also notes that the operational sub plans that support the plan are reviewed and updated under the delegated authority of the Local Disaster Management Group those plans are being systematically reviewed the Local Disaster Coordination Centre sub plan reviewed by the Local Disaster Management Group in November. So I'm just steadily going through each one to update those since the last update to Council in September 2024 key disaster management activities securing have significant state and Federal funding for recent events including ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred, the western Queensland trough and activation for counter disaster operations and reconstruction of public assets for the severe storms that occurred in 2025. Unfortunately I can't give you an accurate figure as to what the November storms will be. We're still getting the last of the invoices in for that. Community resilience activities have continued strongly in 2025 with around 6,000 get ready packs distributed across schools, aged care facilities and public engagement events in partnership with our emergency services. That is considerably increased on the 2024 year with a couple of bigger events being initiated this past year. So the recommendation before Council is to repeal the 2023 Local Disaster Management Plan and adopt the 2026 version. Sorry and I just remembered we have just discovered one error in the report as well where I talked about the recommendation or the last Council endorsement of the 2023 plan. It says 2026 instead of 2023.