Regional Plan (NQRP) Brett Nancarrow 22 November 2019 Presentation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Brett Nancarrow – 22 November 2019

Draft North Queensland Regional Plan (NQRP)

Briefing for the FNQROC Planners Group

 New generation regional plans – what they are, what they look like and their role  Delivering regional plans  Communication and engagement approach  Overview of the draft NQ regional plan

Presentation overview

What are new generation regional plans?

 Long-term (25+ year outlook) strategic land use plans  Sets a clear regional vision  Address existing or emerging regional issues  Inform land use planning and decision making  Guide infrastructure prioritisation and investment  Prepared in collaboration with local governments, state agencies, key stakeholders groups and the wider community  More heavily geared toward implementation & delivery  Ongoing regional ownership

 Duplicate other planning tools, legislation, state-wide policies  Attempt to comprehensively deal with all planning issues in the region (e.g. education, health)  Address local issues (only strategic regional issues)  Commit specific spending or project (infrastructure) delivery – there are other tools and processes for this  Duplicate another region’s plan – each regional plan is to deal with the specific region’s issues, but in the same policy context (as relevant)

What regional plans won’t do…

Role of regional plans

Planning context:

• Community needs and values
• Local, state and commonwealth government

responsibilities

• Other drivers (megatrends, demographics, other

strategies)

Economy Environment Community State Planning Policy Regional Plans Development assessment Development delivery Local planning instruments

Regulatory provisions in the Regulation

Planning Act and Regulation

Regional Planning Interests Act and Regulation

State Development Assessment Provisions

• Plan making
• Development

requirements Development requirements

Role of regional plans cont.

Delivering regional plans

 Implementation actions  Measures that matter

Communication and engagement approach

Traditional Owners Industry, Community and Environment Working Group Local Government Working Group State Agency Working Group Regional Economic Development Advisory Committees Regional Planning Committee (RPC) Targeted stakeholder engagement Community engagement on draft plan Statutory public consultation (30-60 days)

• The only region in Queensland not currently

represented by a regional plan

• Local government areas of:
• Burdekin
• Charters Towers
• Hinchinbrook
• Palm Island
• Townsville
• Heavily focused on regional economic

development – linking land use planning, infrastructure and economic initiatives

The Draft NQ Regional Plan

Draft NQ Regional Plan structure

Policy highlights

Economy & environment

• Directing future agricultural expansion to the upper-Burdekin catchment.
• Establishing go-zones for renewable energy developments (and deterring them from

establishing on GQAL).

• Transitioning the Townsville CBD into a future health & knowledge precinct and

linking this with the existing hospital/JCU precinct.

• Supports eco / adventure / cultural tourism uses establishing in existing conservation

areas

• Nominates strategic environmental areas for protection and directs

rehabilitation/offsets to key locations within a regional biodiversity network

Policy highlights

Urban growth & infrastructure

• Introduces assessment benchmarks to better manage urban

sprawl for Townsville

• Supports greater consolidation of, and increased housing

diversity in, regional centres

• Strengthened focus on creating liveable communities
• Neighbourhood planning
• Connected settlement patterns
• Tropical urbanism
• Strengthens protections for key infrastructure corridors,

including for defence, freight and stock networks

• Flags future infrastructure upgrades based on new economic
• pportunities (e.g. new Woodstock industrial precinct)

Delivering the plan

• Implementation

actions

• Measures that

matter

Public consultation overview

• 60 business day consultation period – 30 August until 22 November 2019
• Numerous government, industry and stakeholder sessions
• Consultation events held in each LGA
• Drop-in sessions and information stands
• Talk to a planner sessions
• Submissions via:
• www.qld.gov.au/planNQ
• planNQ@dsdmip.qld.gov.au

Post: Draft NQRP Feedback DSDMIP PO Box 5666 Townsville QLD 4810

Next steps

• Ongoing consultation and stakeholder engagement
• Consideration of submissions and update of plan (as required)
• Release of the final regional plan expected early 2020