City of Gold Coast Planning and Development Hub

Water and Waste would like to extend an invitation to two representatives from your organisation to attend our complimentary Better Business Breakfast.

The City of Gold Coast is inspired to help your business win the war on waste and is pleased to present guest speakers who will provide proactive solutions for sustainable operations.

As a provider of your essential services, we will also be updating you on:

• Our new ICT solution to support major customer property and revenue functions
• Digital city and smart metering
• Tariff reform update

Exhibitors will also be on-site providing the opportunity to interact with key personnel in the following areas:

• Trade waste
• Scientific laboratory services
• Waste and recycling initiatives and services
• Recycled water expansion network

Places are limited. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about new changes and what this will mean for your business.

RSVP now to secure your seats.

Date: 12 September 2018

Time: 7.30am doors open 8.00am breakfast/presentations

Where: Southport Golf Club, Slatyer Avenue, Southport.

RSVP: 3 September 2018 wwbusiness@goldcoast.qld.gov.au or call 07 5582 8122

On 28 August 2018, Council endorsed the withdrawal of Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.5 (Minimum Land Above Designated Flood Level and Residential Risk Reduction) 2017 and the preparation and submission of Temporary Local Planning Instrument No.6 (Development in the Guragunbah flood plain area) 2018.

The proposed TLPI No.6 will now be submitted to the Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Planning for approval.

City of Gold Coast has also sought approval for a commencement date of 28 August 2018. If approved by the Minister, Council will need to resolve to adopt TLPI No.6 to bring it into effect.

TLPI No.6 seeks to prevent the potential loss of the city’s flood resilience and enable the sustainable mitigation of flood hazard on flood prone land in the Guragunbah flood plain area.

TLPI No.6 will amend the operation of the Flood overlay code to ensure development in the Guragunbah flood plain area is not exposed to high to extreme flood hazard unless it is specified as suitable.

The Guragunbah flood plain is recognised as the largest urban flood plain in Australia. It is a unique natural asset recognised for providing significant open space and habitat of state and local significance.

Council has endorsed the adoption of Major Update 1 and 1B to the City Plan, which will commence on 20 September 2018 as part of City Plan Version 6. One of the significant updates includes changes to flood overlay maps and the Designated Flood Level (DFL). For example, in some areas of the City, this will result in some properties requiring a significant increase to the height of habitable floor levels for new development. Other properties that were not previously impacted by flood, may now be impacted.

The following advisory notes are provided to assist applicants who have development applications lodged with Council, or are intending to lodge applications with Council, leading up to the commencement of City Plan Version 6:

• Applications currently lodged with Council that can be decided, or will reach the decision stage, prior to City Plan Version 6
  
  In most circumstances, Council Officers will not have regard to City Plan Version 6 for applications that can be resolved, or are in decision stage, prior to the commencement of City Plan Version 6.
  
  
• Applications that are lodged with Council prior to the commencement of City Plan Version 6 that have not reached the decision stage
  
  For applications that reach decision stage after commencement of City Plan Version 6, regard will be given to City Plan Version 6. In particular, there is a strong likelihood that officers will request applicants to fully respond to the new flood overlay maps and DFL.
  
  Our objective is to ensure applicants are fully aware of this position as we wish to avoid an applicant from having to provide an assessment under City Plan Version 5 and then having to provide a further assessment under City Plan Version 6. We also want to avoid applicants from having to carry out a potential redesign of an application and the significant frustrations this will cause.
  
  
• Applications lodged with Council after the commencement of City Plan Version 6
  
  These applications will be assessed and decided under City Plan Version 6.
  
  An applicant is entitled to lodge a request for a Superseded Planning Scheme (SPS) for their application to be assessed and decided under City Plan Version 5. However, there is no certainty that such a request will be supported. Enhancing and maintaining resilience to flood hazard is of paramount importance to the City, and therefore it is unlikely that Officers will support an SPS application that is seeking to utilise the superseded flood overlay maps and DFL under City Plan Version 5.

Managing the transition from City Plan Version 5 to City Plan Version 6

It is imperative that strong communication occurs between applicants and officers relating to required information in order for a full assessment to be made and the critical dates the information must be submitted by. Applicants are encouraged to contact the assessing officers as soon as possible. Likewise, Council’s assessing officers will endeavour to contact affected applicants in the coming weeks.

We appreciate that applicants may attempt to have their applications resolved prior to the commencement of City Version 6, or at least to ensure the application reaches the Decision Stage prior to the commencement of City Plan Version 6. Officers will act as reasonably as possible to ensure applications are not unnecessarily held up during this transitional period. However, we strongly discourage the submission of unsatisfactory information simply to progress the application to the decision stage. Such information may result in applications being decided unfavourably. Officers would rather work with an applicant as soon as possible in an attempt to resolve issues prior to the commencement of City Plan Version 6.

Council today endorsed the adoption Major Update 1 and 1B to the City Plan, which will commence on 20 September 2018 as part of City Plan Version 6. These updates were endorsed by the Minister for adoption with no conditions.

The updates were available for public comment in late 2017. The City reviewed all properly made submissions, changes were considered and made to the update packages where it could be demonstrated the change would result in an improved outcome or public benefit.

Major Update 1 and 1B comprises of a combination of improvements and policy shifts to meet State requirements, align with community expectations and achieve best practice including:

• new provisions from the small lot housing review;
• refinements to the density provisions and subdivision requirements within the low density residential zone;
• party house land use controls to ensure ongoing regulation of party houses within our city, replacing the current temporary measures;
• proposed changes to zoning, height and densities in the area surrounding Harbour Town Shopping Centre to support appropriate future growth and opportunities;
• new provisions in the strategic framework, to reinforce the unique character and values of Tugun Village and Burleigh Heads Village; and
• updated Flood overlay mapping incorporating the projected increase in sea level of 0.8m above present-day levels by 2100, established by the State Government in 2015; and the State Government's projected 10% storm tide intensity and 10% rainfall intensity, based on advice from industry representatives and recommended by the Australian Rainfall and Runoff Handbook.

For more information visit www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Following recent recruitment activity and internal reviews, there are some changes to key staff and reporting lines within the Planning Assessment and Major Assessment Sections of City Development.

Major Assessment Section

• The Central Assessment team will be realigned to report to the Executive Coordinator of Major Assessment, Steve Brett and will now sit within the Major Assessment Section.
• The Central Assessment team will continue to coordinate the assessment all development applications in Divisions 6, 7, and 10. However, they will now also coordinate the assessment of applications in Division 12.
• The Major Assessment team will continue to assess major development proposals across the City.
• The Major Assessment and Central Assessment teams will remain separate teams under the supervision of Phil Zappala (Major Assessment) and Jemma Glover (Central Assessment), with Steve Brett overseeing both teams within the Major Assessment Section.

Planning Assessment Section

• As mentioned above, the Central Assessment team will no longer be part of the Planning Assessment Section.
• Development applications in Division 8 will now be assessed by the South Assessment Team (Adam Brown’s team) in the Planning Assessment Section.
• The South Assessment team will coordinate all applications in Divisions 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 under Adam Brown’s Supervision.
• Andrew Powell and Emma McGregor are the two Supervisors of the North Assessment Team.
• There are no changes to the Fast Track Team or Planning Enquiries Centre.
• Roger Sharpe is the Executive Coordinator for all teams within the Planning Assessment Section.

Current applications that are affected by the changes above will continue to be assessed by the current planning officer and supervisor in most instances. However, Officers will contact applicants to advise if there are any changes to the allocated assessment officer.

For reference, a list of the Supervisors and contact numbers for each team is provided below:

Major Assessment Section

Major Assessment Team – Phil Zappala (5582 8689)

Central Assessment Team – Divisions 6, 7, 10, 12 – Jemma Glover (5582 9854)

Planning Assessment Section

North Assessment Team – Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 – Andrew Powell (5582 8289) & Emma McGregor (5582 9852)

South Assessment Team – Divisions 8, 9, 11, 13 and 14 – Adam Brown (5582 8737)

Fast Track Team – Wiremu Cherrington (5582 8694)

Planning Enquiries Centre – 5582 8708

The Enlightened City

Places are complex and uneven. Every city in the world has a chequered past and a present where great urban experiences contrast against others that are underwhelming. The Gold Coast is no different, but at this very sensitive point in civic growth, the most important question is: what kind of city should the Gold Coast become?

The Enlightened City is a presentation by Right Angle Studio’s Strategy and Insights Director Barrie Barton. It reflects upon the Gold Coast’s awakening as a city with potential way beyond tourism and what it might mean to be a genuinely competitive metropolis that is firmly part of the Asian Century and seen as more than an outer-lying suburb of Brisbane.

Based upon Right Angle’s experiences around the world on large city-shaping projects such as Elephant Park and International Quarter London, the transformation of Maboneneng in Johannesburg, One Bangkok, Barangaroo in Sydney and their own developments in Surry Hills, his talk will cover three themes that are essential to the future success of the Gold Coast:

1. Cross-Sectional Communities
2. Third Wave Sustainability
3. Permanent Vacations

Barrie Barton Bio

Barrie Barton is a lawyer by qualification, an entrepreneur by nature and an urban strategist by profession. He has spent most of his adult life thinking about the relationship between the places where we choose to live and the sorts of people we become as a result. In 2005, he set up Right Angle Studio: a business dedicated to understanding and improving life in cities.

At the institutional end of town, Right Angle provides strategic advice to governments, large brands and developers who want to understand what city people will need in the future and how to develop property that can realise value by meeting those demands.

At the fine-grain end of town, Right Angle have started a number of notably successful businesses that they own and operate including Australia’s first ever online city guides, Melbourne’s Rooftop Cinema, Sydney’s Golden Age Cinema & Bar, and most recently The Paramount Recreation Club: a rooftop café and fitness studio that provides busy city people with a beautiful space to improve physical, mental and social health.

Barrie currently calls Sydney home but is engaged in property projects across Australia, in London and Johannesburg where his casual and intelligent approach to creating valuable property is yielding extraordinary results for the industry and end-users alike.

Date: Thursday, 26 July 2018

Time: Midday refreshments, 12.30pm presentation

Venue: HOTA, Home of the Arts, 135 Bundall Rd, Surfers Paradise