ULDA Update and Challenges for Greenfields UDA s

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1 ULDA Update and Challenges for Greenfields UDA s 28 June 2011 Steve Conner Director Planning

2 Overview Scene setter Overall ULDA update snapshot SEQ Greenfields UDAs update Key challenges/opportunities for Greenfields UDAs

3 What s the ULDA primarily about? Bringing urban land to the market quickly Provide for housing options (diversity) Affordable housing for low to moderate incomes Provide infrastructure for urban purposes Give effect to ecological sustainability and best practice urban design

4 ULDA Planning toolbox Development Schemes Finalised within 12 months of declaration 6 months of planning 6 months of process Streamlined development assessment process Minimal notification Set decision times (generally 40 days) No referrals No appeals Infrastructure charges certainty

5 Development Schemes in UDAs Status t snapshot Approved Fitzgibbon, Bowen Hills, Northshore Hamilton, Woolloongabba, Roma, Gladstone, Townsville, Mackay Pending gazettal Blackwater, Moranbah, Caloundra South, Ripley Valley, Greater Flagstone, Yarrabilba Pending declaration Tannum Sands (Gladstone)

6 Development Schemes in UDAs Status t snapshot Approved Fitzgibbon, Bowen Hills, Northshore Hamilton, Woolloongabba, Roma, Gladstone, Townsville, Mackay Pending gazettal Blackwater, Moranbah, Caloundra South, Ripley Valley, Greater Flagstone, Yarrabilba Pending declaration Tannum Sands (Gladstone) ULDA as a major developer Planning authority for approx 380, population Developer of approx 175,000 dwellings

7 Greenfields UDAs Flagstone, Yarrabilba, Ripley Valley, Caloundra South Submitted development schemes with Minister Early October gazettal Collectively future 350,000 population

8 Caloundra South - illustrative vision Snapshot Population 50,000 UDA area Greenspace Environmental protection 2,310ha 890ha (38% of UDA) 485ha

9 Greater Flagstone - vision Snapshot Population 120,000 UDA area Greenspace Environmental protection 7,188ha 1,800ha (25% of UDA) 400ha

10 Yarrabilba - vision Snapshot Population 50,000 UDA area Greenspace Environmental protection 2,222ha 750ha (over 30% of UDA) 140ha

11 Ripley Valley - vision Snapshot Population 120,000 UDA area Greenspace Environmental protection 4,680ha over 2,100ha (over 40% of UDA) 1,500ha

12 Greenfield s Development Schemes Land Use Plan Philosophy h Flexibility o acknowledge year timeframes o avoid over regulation and spatial prescription Certainty - for applicants, regulators and the community Minimal fuss planning layers - Context plans to bridge from development scheme to individual DAs Support ULDA DA regime - minimum information requests, minimum referrals, 40 day decisions, no appeals, in-house expertise Sensitive to commercial viability Drafting - simple, plain English, policy/vision clarity, standards/prescription out of the development scheme for amending

13 Greenfield s Development Schemes Infrastructure t Plan Philosophy h Infrastructure imposts comprehensively assessed o Schedule of costed requirements Sensitive to commercial viability Single ownership: o Head & secondary tiered infrastructure agreements (include compliance and enforcement regimes) o Emphasis on delivery of works for local infrastructure + value uplift + special rate Fragmented ownership: o $/lot charges + value uplift + special rate o Minimal infrastructure agreements CBRC approval before Oct gazettal

14 Greenfield s Development Schemes Infrastructure t Plan Philosophy h

15 Greenfield s Development Schemes Implementation ti Strategy t Philosophy h Acknowledge year timeframes Stretch targets, goals, action commitments o ESD measures (water, energy, waste, PT) o Community development o Housing affordability o Employment generation Monitoring, review & improvement cycle for best practice

16 Greenfield s UDAs Challenges/opportunities Given our brief & parameters have we got it right?

17 Greenfield s UDAs Challenges/opportunities Comparisons with SPA (masterplanning) g)processes Accept rather than re-litigate Regional Plan Planning & infrastructure t imposts have to be reasonable for viable development o Just because big no excuse for being unreasonable Many barriers removed expect good outcomes on the ground Build culture of embracing and trialling innovation and leading practice