Flinders Ranges and Outback Integrated Strategic Tourism Plan

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Final Plan Planning Policy That Facilitates Sustainable Tourism Development Commission with the power to assess development applications against the provisions contained within local Development Plans. In most areas, development applications will be assessed by the local Council’s planning officer or its Development Assessment Panel (which includes Elected Members and independent experts). However, in the case of much of the Flinders Ranges and almost all of the Outback areas, the State’s Development Assessment Commission is the authority which assesses development applications. This is because the majority of these regions are not within the boundaries of a local Council. It is also important to note that the maintenance and review of planning policy within these regions is the sole responsibility of the State Government with the administrative assistance of Planning SA. 12.3 The Planning Strategy The Planning Strategy is an expression of policy which sets out the State Government’s vision for development in South Australia and the regions within it. The Planning Strategy covers the full range of social, economic and environmental issues. When preparing and reviewing their Development Plan, local councils are required to maintain consistency with the visions contained within the Planning Strategy. The Planning Strategy is comprised of three volumes – the Metropolitan Adelaide volume, the Outer Metropolitan Adelaide volume and the Regional South Australia volume. Currently, the Flinders Ranges and Outback areas are covered by the Planning Strategy for Regional South Australia. This document is under review and is being replaced by a series of ‘Regional Land Use Frameworks’ which will apply to smaller geographic areas. Planning SA has advised that the Far North and Mid North Regional Land Use Frameworks (within which the Flinders and Outback areas will sit) are currently being prepared and should be released in draft form later in 2008. Until this time, the existing Planning Strategy for Regional South Australia will continue to provide guidance for the preparation of new planning policy. The Planning Strategy lends strong support for the further development of the tourism industry. It summary, it advocates: • Undertaking area specific tourism planning in order to develop appropriate policies. • Linking tourist development to environmental attractions. • Developing policies to guide the type, scale and design of tourist accommodation. • Ensuring tourist accommodation is linked to appropriate infrastructure. • Identifying existing tourist attractions and developing policies to ensure development respects these attractions. • Ensuring that this Strategy informs the Development of a new Planning Framework. Urban & Regional Planning Solutions d:\frosa region istp\frosa region istp.doc Page 79
Final Plan Planning Policy That Facilitates Sustainable Tourism Development 12.4 Local Development Plans The Development Plan is a statutory or legally binding planning document which sets out the guidelines against which development applications are assessed in each Council area. The Development Plan has two purposes. Firstly, it sets out objectives to guide the type and location of future development across the Council area. Secondly, it provides the detail for the assessment of individual development applications. The Development Plan does this by establishing a network of zones and policy areas over the Council area which describe the desired future character for that particular area. The Development Plan then sets out more detailed criteria against which development applications will be assessed in each zone and/or policy area. Importantly, the Development Plan only comes into effect once an application has been lodged. Because of this, it can not control existing development or influence the way existing land uses are managed. The Development Plan also does not directly control the investment in roads and other infrastructure or the provision of community services such as garbage collection and schools. These infrastructure issues need to be co-ordinated through the Council’s Strategic Management Plan in association with the State Government and the private sector. There are 11 local Development Plans which control development within the Flinders Ranges and Outback Areas region. While the State Government is actively working with local Councils to update their Development Plans, there are a number of Plans within the region which are clearly outdated. Specifically, there is lack of policy consistency in relation to tourism development, there is a lack of clear linkages between the Council-wide and zone provisions and there is a lack of guidance in relation to the desired siting, type, form, scale, size and design of tourism related development. The Tourism Development Policy Module prepared as part of the State Government’s Better Development Program provides Objectives and Principles of Development Control to guide tourism developments with respect to environmental sustainability and innovative design. Further detail of the review of Development Plans for the region is provided in Appendix D of the Companion Document to this Strategic Plan. 12.5 Planning Policy Recommendations Tourism development which is sustainable and designed to complement the natural landscape within the Flinders Ranges and Outback Areas is strongly promoted by the Planning Strategy for Regional South Australia. It is now important to ensure that local Development Plans reinforce this strategic direction while also providing detailed guidelines for the actual assessment of tourism development. The following recommendations have been prepared in order to ensure that local Development Plans adhere to the broad direction set by the Planning Strategy: Urban & Regional Planning Solutions d:\frosa region istp\frosa region istp.doc Page 80
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