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State Planning Policy 2/07 Guideline - Queensland Mining and Safety

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Overriding community benefit<br />

5.8 For the purposes of this SPP, development provides an overriding community benefit<br />

when it is demonstrated that the development would result in social, economic or<br />

ecological benefits for the community that would outweigh the potential loss of the<br />

extractive resources on the development site to the community. Circumstances where<br />

an incompatible development could provide an overriding benefit are those that would<br />

significantly—<br />

(a) improve the community’s access to essential services;<br />

(b) increase long-term employment opportunities; or<br />

(c) facilitate synergies with existing activities in the vicinity.<br />

5.9 If development would restrict or prevent extractive industry, the social, economic <strong>and</strong><br />

ecological implications of using alternative sources of extractive resources should be<br />

assessed. This assessment should include the effects of transporting extractive<br />

resources from other sources, including the effects on—<br />

(a) amenity in the vicinity of the route used to transport the extractive materials;<br />

(b) costs of extractive materials for building construction <strong>and</strong> infrastructure;<br />

(c) pollution levels from increased exhaust emissions;<br />

(d) road maintenance costs;<br />

(e) transport costs for extractive industry; <strong>and</strong><br />

(f) transport safety <strong>and</strong> efficiency.<br />

Development cannot be reasonably located elsewhere<br />

5.10 Extractive industry does not have flexible location options because the extractive<br />

resources are fixed, finite <strong>and</strong> are limited in occurrence. Other uses (in particular<br />

residential uses) are unlikely to override the long-term availability of an extractive<br />

resource because they have more flexible location options.<br />

5.11 An assessment of alternative premises for development should amongst other<br />

matters—<br />

(a) identify the location requirements of the development, including physical site<br />

characteristics, access, <strong>and</strong> servicing;<br />

(b) identify premises that meet these location requirements;<br />

(c) evaluate the identified premises in terms of the planning scheme outcomes (or<br />

adjoining planning scheme if suitable l<strong>and</strong> is identified in an adjoining local<br />

government area); <strong>and</strong><br />

(d) assess the respective ecological, social, or economic implications of each alternative<br />

premises.<br />

<strong>State</strong> <strong>Planning</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2/<strong>07</strong> <strong>Guideline</strong>

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