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Planning Government Infrastructure and Environment group Colin Biggers & Paisley's Planning Government Infrastructure and Environment group is the trusted partner of public and private sector entities, for whom we are the legal and policy designers of strategic and tactical solutions to exceptionally challenging problems, in our chosen fields of planning, government, infrastructure and environment. We have more than 50 years' experience of planning, designing and executing legal and policy solutions for large development and infrastructure projects in Australia, including new cities, towns and communities. We are passionate about planning, government, infrastructure and environment issues, and we pride ourselves on acting for both the private and public sectors, including private development corporations, listed development corporations, other non-public sector entities and a wide range of State and local government entities. 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Contents INDEX ................................................................................................................................... ii TABLE OF LEGISLATION ................................................................................................... iv TABLE OF CASES ............................................................................................................... v Drafting IDAS Documents 1 Master planning of master planned areas – State government's legislative response to housing affordability 45 The reform of the Queensland planning and development system to implement master planning 62 Master planning under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 80 Master planning under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 – A planning authority's perspective 92 Negotiated planning – Infrastructure agreements under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 97 Limits of local government body's power to acquire land by compulsory process 100 Planning (Urban Encroachment Milton Brewery) Act 2009 102 Change to development conditions set by court order 104 Consolidation of parallel appeals 106 Putting the SEQ Regional Plan into perspective – The legal perspective 107 Navigating the haze: Construing the assessment provisions of the Integrated Planning Act 1997 115 Interest on debt under judgment or order 117 Deciding on the conflict: A question of fact 118 Directions for dispute resolution regarding conditions attached to a development approval 119 Complexities with the removal and transportation of sand tailings 120 Reliance on council's records: A risk for developers 122 Appeal dismissed: Contrary to planning scheme 123 Submitter appeals – When can a submitter appeal in relation to code assessable aspects of a development application? 125 The time to act is now 127 Strategic steps or frivolous and vexatious proceedings? 129 Finding the meaning in IPA: Interpreting the words of the legislature 131 Residential subdivision did not cut across new planning scheme 133 Court exercises discretionary power to validate planning scheme 135 Application for leave to appeal: Law vs Fact 137 Owner's consent: A common sense approach 139 When public notification goes wrong in more ways than one 140 Application for transfer of appeal from Bundaberg to Brisbane 142 LEGAL KNOWLEDGE MATTERS VOL. 7, 2006 – 2009 | i Index Access and mobility ............................................................................................................................................. 137 Affected area notation .......................................................................................................................................... 102 Air emissions, noise and light pollution ................................................................................................................ 102 Approval ...................................................................................................................................................... 119, 142 Assessable development ............................................................................................................. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17, 18 Assessment level ......................................................................................................................................... 135, 136 Assessment manager ....................................................................................................... 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 17, 20, 32 Australia's coastal zone ....................................................................................................................................... 127 Award costs ......................................................................................................................................................... 129 Biodiversity .................................................................................................................................................. 127, 128 Brisbane City Plan 2000 ...................................................................................................................................... 104 Certificate of assessment .................................................................................................................................... 117 Changing an application ...................................................................................................................................... 132 Climate change ............................................................................................................................................ 127, 128 Coastal communities ................................................................................................................................... 127, 128 Community health and wellbeing ......................................................................................................................... 137 Compensation ............................................................................................................................................. 115, 116 Compulsory acquisition ........................................................................................................................................ 100 Compulsory process ............................................................................................................................................ 100 Consent ............................................................................................................................................................... 100 Costs ................................................................................................................................................................... 126 Costs recoverable ................................................................................................................................................ 117 Credit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 98 Decision notice .................................................................................................................................................... 131 Desired Environmental Outcomes ....................................................................................................................... 137 Development application ...... 102, 106, 115, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 129, 133, 139, 140, 142 Development approval ................................................................................................................................. 102, 122 Development approvals process........................................................................................................................ 1, 11 Development assessment system ............................................................................................................. 62, 68, 73 Development permit .....................................................................................................