Community planning services in Glenelg Shire Council : 1998-2005 ...

80 Did the council have appropriate management arrangements for the delivery of its planning services?
Recommendation
14. That the council undertake a risk assessment of its planning
functions and include the results of this assessment in its riskmanagement
plan.
RESPONSE provided by Glenelg Shire Council
Recommendation agreed.
The Glenelg Shire Council Risk Management Strategy will be amended
accordingly.
4.3 Strategic planning framework
The council is regarded as a planning authority under the Planning and
Environment Act 1987 (the Act). As such, it has a duty to provide sound,
strategic and coordinated planning for the use and development of land in
the Glenelg shire.
As indicated in Part 2, the key document used by municipal planning services
to regulate land use and development is the council’s planning scheme. This
scheme has two broad parts as outlined in Figure 4A.
FIGURE 4A: COMPONENTS OF GLENELG COUNCIL’S PLANNING SCHEME
1. A policy component, designed to
ensure planning decisions achieve
certain planning outcomes.
2. The detailed requirements of the
scheme.
Source: Victorian Auditor-General’s Office.
This is outlined in:
the State Planning Policy Framework
the Local Planning Policy Framework
the Municipal Strategy Statement33 (MSS). (The MSS should
be consistent with the council’s corporate plan.)
These are outlined in zones, overlays, particular provision
requirements, and general provision requirements. (For an
explanation of these terms, see part 3.5.1.)
Under the Act, the council must regularly review the provisions of its
planning scheme and prepare amendments as required. The Act also requires
the MSS to be reviewed at least once every 3 years.
33 The purpose of the Strategy Statement is to further the State Government’s planning objectives to the
extent that they apply to the municipal district.