The Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA) was amended by the Sustainable Planning and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2012 (SPOLAA) which commenced on 17 February 2012. SPOLAA is the result of the first regular review of the SPA and includes amendments that clarify, simplify or improve operational arrangements for the planning and development framework. For further information on the SPOLAA refer to the Queensland Legislation website.

New planning and development laws came into effect on 18 December 2009 with the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 replacing the Integrated Planning Act 1997. This new legislation seeks to achieve sustainable planning outcomes through:

• managing the process by which development takes place
• managing the effects of development on the environment
• continuing the coordination and integration of local, regional and state planning.

Sustainable Planning Regulation

On 17 February 2012, the Sustainable Planning Amendment Regulation (No. 2) 2012 amended the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009 to prescribe, for the purposes of section 232(2) of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, that all aspects of development, provided certain criteria are met, for an existing public hospital or for an existing school, is exempt development under certain local planning instruments.

On 27 January 2012, the Sustainable Planning Amendment Regulation (No. 1) 2012 amended the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009 to prescribe the use of Statutory Guideline 01/12 - Making and amending local planning instruments for making or amending a planning scheme or planning scheme policy and making a temporary local planning instrument.

On 2 December 2011 the Sustainable Planning Amendment Regulation (No. 6) 2011 amended the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009, as follows:

• prescribes the day for the ending of State Planning Policies 1/02 and 2/02
• prescribes the use of Statutory guideline 01/11 - Priority infrastructure plans for preparing priority infrastructure plans
• inserts a new referral jurisdiction under the Transport Operations (Marine Pollution) Act 1995
• ensures that the clearing of vegetation on land for access and removal of state-owned quarry materials for the purposes of road works under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994 is not assessable development.

Materials currently available

• IDAS forms and checklists
• Interactive versions of IDAS forms and checklists
• Building and Dispute Resolution Committees forms and guidelines
• Compliance assessment state planning policy and fact sheets
• Fact sheets about the Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS)
• Development assessment process and IDAS flow charts
• Queensland Planning Provisions
• Priority infrastructure plan templates and statutory guidelines
• Public notification forms and guides
• Sustainable planning forms and templates (excluding IDAS forms)
• Standard conditions for deemed approvals and fact sheet
• Statutory guidelines

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