Deputations and public questions to council, each opening on what council's minutes record of it.
2024-12-19
Public question
Ordinary Meeting
Kim Petrovic
Heard at the meeting. Council's recording has these questions from 47:09; our transcript is below.
▶ Hear it — council's recording, from 47:09
The feed timestamps the whole public question block rather than each speaker, so this starts at the top of that block.
What the minutes record
Question 1
When does a request to extend the decision period cease to be dealt with by way of a delegated authority and brought to Councillors' attention/information that these have been issued previously including how many? In the case of multiple rolling approvals to extend the decision, at what point does it become the Councillors' decision to determine if these approvals should be issued rather than these being issued by the Development Assessment Manager?
Response from Richard MacGillivray, Director Regulation & Development
Thank you for your question.
Council officers are responsible for assessing development applications in line with legislative requirements. Extending the decision-making period is an operational decision made during the assessment process, similar to issuing an information request, extending an information response period, or sending a Further Advice letter. Agreeing to extend the decision-making period is part of the assessment process and not a decision on the application itself. Additionally, extensions to the decision-making period are often only requested and agreed to where the applicant has advised they intend to take steps to address or respond to issues raised during the assessment process. Councillors are also briefed from time to time or on request on the status of applications that have significant community interest.
Question 2
Does the rezoning of the adjacent Parkridge Estate as High Density Residential materially affect the assessment of the hotel?
Response from Richard MacGillivray, Director Regulation & Development
Thank you for your question.
While specific advice cannot be provided about an application currently under assessment, I can confirm that the rezoning of the adjacent Parkridge Estate does not materially affect the assessment of the proposed hotel at Noosa Springs. The application is impact assessable and will be evaluated in accordance with the requirements of the Planning Act 2016, Planning Regulations 2017, and the DA Rules.
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Transcript of the recording
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47:09 Mayor Wilkie: Kim Petrovich. You have two questions. You know the way. Thank you. Sorry, Ms Petrovich. You're all right.
47:18 Kim Petrovic: Thank you.
47:19 Mayor Wilkie: And your questions are going to be, again, answered by Richard MacGillivray, Director of Development and Regulation. Thank you, Richard.
47:26 Kim Petrovic: My first question is basically around the concerns that the community has in relation to the multiple extensions that have been granted to the applicant. And the second question, which is this, it's really quite timely too, is failure of planning staff to put an application and an extension approval up on the planning portal in a timely manner. So my question is, when does a request to extend the decision period cease to be dealt with by way of a delegated authority and brought to Council's attention? And if so, when does the request to extend the decision period cease to be dealt with
48:10 by the Council? And also, in the case of multiple rolling approvals to extend the decision, at what point does it become the Council's decision to determine if these approvals should be issued rather than being issued by the development assessment manager? And I'd really like some follow-up action taken on this.
48:32 Speaker 5: Yeah. Thank you.
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