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

APPENDIX 2: COMPATIBILITY OF DEVELOPMENT IN KEY
RESOURCE AREAS
A2.1 The following material is not intended to be incorporated directly into a planning
scheme, but should be used to help devise appropriate detailed measures for achieving
the Policy’s outcome and integrating those measures with other provisions of the
planning scheme. Where the Policy has not been appropriately reflected in a planning
scheme, this appendix should be used to assist in interpreting the Policy in
development assessment.
A2.2 This appendix refers to scheme measures in terms of overlays and associated
assessment criteria, and is consistent with the approach and terminology suggested for
planning schemes in the IPA Plan Making Guideline 1/02 published by the
Department of Local Government and Planning.
Extractive resources overlay
A2.3 The most appropriate way of presenting the mapped information will depend on the
structure of the particular planning scheme. Key Resource Areas can be included as
one or more zones or overlays to which specific development assessment provisions
apply.
Using the tables
A2.4 The tables below set out the following information—
• Column 1: Type of development made assessable or self-assessable – a material
change of use or reconfiguring a lot that would result in development likely to be
incompatible in a Key Resource Area should be made assessable or self-assessable.
Whether development is made assessable or self-assessable depends on whether it is
possible to identify all relevant assessment criteria in a precise way that does not require
any interpretation/discretion. If that is possible, self-assessable is the appropriate
assessment category. It is not necessary to make compatible development assessable
development under the extractive resources overlay. However this development could be
subject to other relevant assessment criteria under the planning scheme.
• Column 2: Specific outcomes – these specific outcomes provide the basis for a local
government to devise the relevant assessment criteria and can be used to assess the
compatibility of development in a Key Resource Area.
• Column 3: Solutions – these solutions provide the basis for a local government to devise
solutions for the planning scheme code(s) in the context of the planning scheme area. A
solution can be made an acceptable solution when it can be refined in a way that results in
precise criteria requiring no exercise of discretion to determine whether a development
proposal complies.
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