(Revised June 2010)
DEVELOPMENT IN QUEENSLAND
Welcome to the most regulated and complex activity that you can undertake in Queensland
The regulation of developments in Queensland over the last 30 years, we are told, has resulted from a desire by the community to achieve eccological and ecconomic sustainablility for future generations.
Whether or not this objective will be achieved by the rollout of this legislative approach, will be judge by our grandchildren.
The complexity of the system has been brought about by the decision of the Queensland Government some 14 years ago to adopt a single system to manage all development approvals in Queensland.
The effect of this has been a largely complex and unwieldy system which tries to cater for managing Development approval for everything under the one Act.
It makes no difference if it is building works for a lawn locker in Kurumba in the Northern Gulf or sky scrapers in Brisbane or planning approval to realign a residential boundary or to developing 2,000 allotment subdivison or approval to pumping water from the local creek or changing the use of hospital building to a hostel.
Add to this, a rapidly escalating amount of social and amenity controls currently being rolled out by local governments under thier contemporary planning schemes and you have a system that is now a huge Gordian Knot and no place for the faint hearted;
The administrative process of undertaking this activity is controlled by the Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS)
This system is also supported by a plethora of other state legislation including