This issue From the editor 1 Focus From the president 2 Melbourne’s legacy for the ages 11 News Planning for the Commonwealth Games 13 Letters to the editor 3 Temporary uses - uncertainty in 2013 PIA Awards for Planning Excellence the process 16 in Queensland 4 Major events experienced 18 PIA 2013 State Conference 6 What’s New 2013 – Session 3: Digital Refereed paper City Networks 8 Coastal resilience: planning with How to ... prepare a planning scheme 8 communities for sea level rise 21 Th e Queensland Plan through a social A (re-)assessment of Northern Australia’s planning perspective 9 agricultural future 30 Planners ‘Get Big or Get out’ Growing agriculture in Queensland by thinking local! 37 Q&A: Sallyanne Atkinson PIA (Hon Fellow) 10 Cover design by Zara Ali Planning www.zaraali.com.au Statutory corner 44 Be part of something bigger... Do you: tLOPXUIBUplanning matters? tXBOUBpoint of difference? tMJLFUPGFFMconnected tXBOUUPFOIBODFZPVSprofessional reputationBOEsphere of influence? tWBMVFUIFsharing of experiences? tXBOUUPinfluence planning policy BOEimprove planning outcomes for the community? tOFFEUPCFBUUIFleading edge? tOFFEPQQPSUVOJUJFTUPJODSFBTF ZPVSknowledge and skills? tXBOUUPIFMQJODSFBTFUIFprofile of planning in the community? tXBOUBDDFTTUPMPDBM OBUJPOBMBOE PWFSTFBTnetworking opportunities? Show your commitment... become a PIA Member Visit the PIA website www.planning.org.au for more information or contact PIA’s State Manager – [email protected] From the editor Publications are important to professions expert to the editorial group for the issue, in describing Noosa Beach, Australia’s fi rst and to membership organisations. Often this case Sharon Harwood from James Cook statutory plan (Planning schemes, September largely written by members as well as read by University in Cairns. A similar approach 2012); Ian Wright explaining a shift ‘From them, publications are in a way a refl ection has been used successfully at other times in ecological sustainability to economic of the organisation itself. If planning could the last three years. I still like to come across sustainability’ (Economic development, March be described as thoughtful, varied and the front cover for Indigenous planning with 2013), to the lowdown on planning in interesting I hope that description could be its striking artwork by Mornington Island Borneo by Aaron Russo for the ‘Postcard’ extended to Queensland Planner as well. As artists Netta Loogatha, Amy Loogatha, Dolly segment (Planning culture, June 2013). this is my last Queensland Planner as editor I Loogatha and Ethel Th omas. Th is was kindly Th ere’s a huge body of planning work out would like summarise a few of my highlights arranged by Arts Queensland. there with great variety and I suppose that’s from the past 12 issues. what planning is. I hope I have steered State conference is the PIA highlight for through some of the interesting bits. Nearly three years ago Geoff Mullins, many and it was rewarding to focus on the John Van As and I sat down for my fi rst host cities of Cairns (June 2012) and Mackay One small regret and observation is the Queensland Planner meeting. It was January (September 2013). For these issues there are relatively thin level of debate between writers, 2011, days after Brisbane and much of the many tie-ins with conference topics, refereed or correspondence from readers. Aside from south east had witnessed damaging fl ooding; papers and local stories. It is also good to a few determined letter writers, feedback is just an episode of that summer’s wild weather. write about a place from time to time, rather hard to gauge. Do planners in Queensland Planning after the fl oods was an obvious theme than solely about issues. have little to say? Surely not. Reservations for the magazine. But I am still impressed about voicing their views? Maybe. Or just I liked assembling the Shopping edition one by the number of senior planners from not have the time to write or even read about year ago. Centres, retail and mixed use around the state who agreed to write and planning issues? Possibly. I did happen to remain big challenges for planning. Shopping write candidly about the fl oods. Th is was a pick up an early 1990s issue of Queensland gathered a colourful mix of stories that time when there was much soul searching Planner a few weeks ago and couldn’t remain relevant. Mall or main street shopping (and fi nger pointing) in the community and help notice the lengthy letters from senior in masterplanned communities by Gavin media. It is to the credit of PIA’s membership practitioners about the issues of the day. Duane; Morgan Jones and Sam Burgess that alongside a veritable library of media on big box retail in multi-storey urban Th anks to those who have contributed coverage, planners put together their own buildings, the next trend in large format over the last three years, not least the many discussion and record for others to read. retail?; Place Design Group’s take on centres writers; PIA staff Kaye Duggan, Melanie Urban design is my professional planning; and a panel discussion I organised Adam and Dan Molloy; and PIA Queensland preoccupation and so an urban design on neighbourhood scale shopping, all presidents Greg Tupicoff and Kate Isles. Th e theme was high on my list of topics. Th is complimented by a smart front cover by Tract Queensland Planner committee has regularly came out as the winter 2011 issue. In consultants. featured Geoff Mullins, John Van As, Daniela it were thoughtful articles from some of Mantilla, Linda Tait, Eve Vickerson, Nikki What I have tried to do is guide Queensland Queensland’s urban design leaders like Juris Huddy. Th anks to you. On the design side Planner on a course somewhere between Greste OAM and John Byrne. Peter Edwards’ Tract, Zara Ali and Lyle Essery from Bayfi eld newsletter and academic journal. A memorable take on the (still current) fl yover- Printing deserve much credit. Best wishes magazine-journal if you like. A benefi t of inducing road building frenzy - Troll habitat to the new editorial team. I look forward this approach is the variety of topics and – is a favourite. to reading the next edition and, as they say, writers that can be included. Anything many more after that. December 2011’s Indigenous planning was from retiring Brisbane councilor David for me and I’m sure others an eye-opener Hinchliff e refl ecting on planning regulation Mike McKeown, MPIA on indigenous planning issues. Th is theme after 25 years in local government (Planning Editor was made possible by the addition of a topic and politics, March 2012), to Mark Baker 4XHHQVODQG 4XHHQVODQG 4XHHQVODQG SODQQHU SODQQHU SODQQHU -RXUQDORIWKH4XHHQVODQG3ODQQLQJ3URIHVVLRQ:LQWHU9RO1R -RXUQDORIWKH4XHHQVODQGSODQQLQJSURIHVVLRQ6XPPHU9RO1R -RXUQDORIWKH4XHHQVODQGSODQQLQJSURIHVVLRQ6XPPHU9RO1R ZZZ 5XUDO &RUQHU 'LVWULFW 6WULS %XON\ 5HJLRQDO &%' 6+233,1* ,QGLJHQRXVSODQQLQJ Queensland Planner – Summer 2013 – Vol 53 No 4 – 1 From the president appreciate what impact hosting such an event would have on our city. Now that I am older and hopefully wiser all I can say is thank goodness Melbourne and Sydney rejected the off er to host and therefore gave Queensland this magnifi cent opportunity to host this global event. I do often wonder what Brisbane would be like if Expo 88 hadn’t happened. Would we still have be able to enjoy the ever transforming South Bank Parklands? Personally I don’t think we would. Like Expo 88, it is amazing what ‘events’ can do to transform our lives both Kate Isles MPIA personally and professionally. On a President PIA Queensland Division professional level I have thorough enjoyed Whilst it is now 25 years ago, I still being involved and attending signifi cant fondly remember attending World Expo events such as the National Congress 88. I still have my season passport and and State Conferences. I was also very various souvenirs having visited all of the lucky to be the National Young Planner pavilions and many several times over. Convenor when the then National Young Th e aim of getting all of those stamps Planner Group developed the concept of was enough to bring out the competitive YPConnect and Building Your Career. streak between us siblings! All of these events are critically important Th ere was of course the favourites like to our development as professionals and Prussian philosopher Wilhelm von eating space food at the USA pavilion, in helping us be the best planners we can Humboldt was right in saying ‘I am more visiting the Swiss pavilion which was be. Th e recent PIA Queensland State and more convinced that our happiness my fi rst exposure to snow (albeit fake!), Conference in Mackay was testament to or our unhappiness depends far more on watching the Hakka being performed this and I am sure all of those delegates the way we meet the events of life than before entering the NZ pavilion, the dive who attended will agree that it was a on the nature of those events themselves’. show, riding the monorail and of course fantastic conference for both its content all the Australian states and territories. and networking opportunities! So with this I extend my season’s Our next door neighbour was part of greetings to the entire PIA community On a personal level there are of course the Expo 88 Executive team so I even and your family and friends. May this major events or milestones that continue managed to get a signed photo with Expo Christmas season bring you all warmth to shape who we are as individuals. Oz the Platypus mascot – but couldn’t and happiness and prepare you for a Sometimes these events challenge us, track it down for inclusion. prosperous 2014. bringing out the best and unfortunately As I look back on this time I smile.