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This issue From the president 2 Being brave: a call to planners to embrace genuine community engagement 18 News Th e new risk frontier: bushfi re risk Political turmoil or the new norm? 3 and land use planning challenges in a Being an Expert Witness 4 changing climate 20 Solomon Islands planners’ four-day Contested landscapes – the impact of intensive 5 rural residential development on food production 22 Young Planner refl ects on 2014 State Conference 7 Mastering the art of planning 24 Young Planner update 7 People British planners praise SEQ’s approach to Q&A: Koon Hean 26 planning and development 8 Ambushed, I was …. 27 Brisbane City Council’s digital strategy Letters 28 for planning and development 8 Place Plan Community attitudes to the Coorparoo Empowering Solomon Islands Junction TOD 29 communities to improve resilience to Cover: Community engagement in Solomon Found Horizon – Postcard from Nepal 31 Islands (see story on page 9) climate change 9 Cover design: Zara Ali Best practice community engagement www.zaraali.com.au principles 15 Editor: Dan Molloy Committee: Linda Tait MPIA CPP John Van As MPIA Eve Vickerson MPIA 6SHFLDOLVWVLQSODQQLQJDQGORFDOJRYHUQPHQWODZ 3K :HE ZZZNLQJDQGFRPSDQ\FRPDX (PDLOFRQWDFW#NLQJDQGFRPSDQ\FRPDX Queensland Planner – Autumn 2015 – Vol 55 No 1 – 1 From the president Government to ensure that the value of seeking their involvement and base our planning is realised through a commitment decisions on that response, we need to be to good planning outcomes, delivering and ready to justify and re-engage when this protecting great places for our community position changes. When I say we here, I to enjoy now and well into the future. mean the collectively “we”. Of course there will be times when things go against the A number of recent events across plan or the norm or the expected – this is Queensland (both man-made and natural) the nature of the industry we work in. Th is have made me personally refl ect on our role is especially true in planning when schemes as planners and the need for us, no matter are really only updated every 10 years (just what area of the industry we work in, to look how much changes in our own lives ensure we are eff ectively communicating within 10 years!) and engaging. I am therefore very pleased that we have taken the Undertaking What this all says to me is that we need Fulfi lling Engagement piece of the Planning to be continually engaging and adapting Matters jigsaw as the theme for this edition. to our environments and the expectations of our stakeholders. Let’s be proactive For me this concept is so fundamental to not reactive – let’s be mindful of our our industry - arguably it is most important. stakeholders and the need to respect our Kate Isles MPIA Th e art of engagement is without a doubt a various roles within the industry. We should Queensland President core skill and its eff ectiveness is something after all still be committed to an outcome Welcome to the fi rst edition of Queensland that we learn and will continue to learn that represents good planning. across our careers. Each and every day Planner for 2015 and what a start to the As you are reading this I am half-way we engage. How well we engage will be year we have had! Th e calling of the state through a community consultation program refl ected in our performance, the feedback election prompted PIA to document our with Toowoomba Regional Council. We we receive and the networks that we will election platform stating what we are are taking the community on a journey as build. Fulfi lling engagement does not looking for in a state government as it it relates to the fl ooding across the region. necessarily mean that we will always win relates to our profession. Th ere is nothing more rewarding as a and in some circumstances it’s actually not planner then being able to get out into the For me, it again reiterated the need for about winning or being right. planning to look beyond political cycles communities that we are helping to shape and have a bipartisan approach in a number Th e underlying principal of engagement – listening, learning, sharing and enabling - of areas such as an infrastructure plan. I is that stakeholders have the chance to and we need to be doing more or this. personally support four year fi xed terms infl uence the decision-making process. For So as we head into 2015 some wise words at our state government level and truly us planners this applies no matter if we are from a surprising author that I think we can believe that this would not only benefi t our talking with our clients, the government or all learn from. profession but all of Queensland. the community. When we engage we need to be true to this principle and this in my “Th e great mistake is to anticipate the Our platform was premised through three opinion is where we have and can fail as outcome of the engagement; you ought not clear channels - Plan, People and Place. planners. to be thinking of whether it ends in victory We made fi rm recommendations in each or in defeat. Let nature take its of these areas and PIA looks forward If during a plan-making or major proposal course, and your tools will strike at to working with the new Queensland we are engaging with our community, the right moment…” Bruce Lee. Your magazine – get involved Queensland Planner is published quarterly and is the flagship If you feel you can make a contribution to Queensland Planner publication of PIA in Queensland. We value the authors, please email me at [email protected] or give me a advertisers and sponsors whose contributions ensure that call on 0407 653809. the publication is of a standard that reflects our professional membership and PIA as an organisation. Dan Molloy Editor As editor, I rely on a small group of dedicated planners to develop themes, story ideas and access their professional networks to ensure that Queensland Planner remains relevant, topical and a key benefit to members. As we move into 2015 and seek to build on the development of the magazine achieved last year, the opportunity is available for two members to join the editorial committee. 2 – Queensland Planner – Autumn 2015 – Vol 55 No 1 News Political turmoil or the new norm? Brendan Nelson MPIA CPP MAICD National President As the dust settles following the development of the Queensland Plan in community confi dence in our politicians. Queensland election, it’s interesting the last 2 years, but the true test will be Failure will invariably result in continued to refl ect on the recent volatility of in its implementation. Implementation is localised planning arguments which Australian politics. We have seen two not the sole responsibility of one person, become highly politicised and end up fi rst term state governments with group or government agency and must be failing everyone, often with the planner substantial mandates lose in recent resourced appropriately. being caught in the middle. months, including in Queensland with further volatility occurring federally. Prior to the election, PIA Queensland At a higher level, there are even more Th ere are many reasons for this volatility President, Kate Isles and the Queensland challenges with the lack of a national including localised jurisdictional issues, Committee called on both parties to use policy on our future growth, management but it’s more complex than that and I the foundation of the Queensland Plan to of environmental constraints such as believe that we are seeing the emergence guide the planning system in Queensland climate change. Australia is currently of a new norm where large mandates are and to ensure that Regional Plans are growing by about 500,000 people per meaningless if governments fail to deliver developed for each region to support the year, and to put this into context, we on promises or cannot articulate and development of local planning schemes. need to deliver the equivalent of a new deliver a shared future vision. Th e principles of the Queensland Plan Townsville or Sunshine Coast every 6 provide this foundation, but it will months or a new Gold Coast every year One of the contributing factors to this require a signifi cant transformation in or so! Th is cannot be done with short new political norm includes a change in the approach currently being taken with term thinking, without planning or the demographic and generation of our regional planning. One of the challenges without the community being part of the voting public. Over the past 50 years, with the development of Regional journey. the traditional generation (born prior Plans is its relationship to infrastructure to World War 2) has reduced from 32% planning and provision. Infrastructure Ignoring the lack of planning leadership to 14% of the voting public and this planning and regional planning go federally, I have watched with interest number will continue to decline. Th e hand in glove and must be considered at the level of reform that each of the Baby Boomer generation has also peaked together. Th is is not a new phenomenon planning systems across Australia are and is also declining as a percentage of in Queensland and has been undertaken undergoing. With the exception of the voting public and now only represents previously with the South East Queensland the Northern Territory, every state approximately 25% of voters nationally. Infrastructure Plan and Program. Th e and territory in Australia is currently Th e big emergence in recent years has Productivity Commission has recognised undergoing (or has undergone been Generation X (1965-1976) and Y the importance of providing certainty within the last decade) some form of (1977-1994) who collectively now make in relation to areas of future growth, planning system reform.

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