Commencement of the draft single State Planning Policy in Queensland

Following the election in March last year, the Queensland Government adopted the Temporary State Planning Policy 1/12 – Planning for Prosperity (Temporary SPP). The Temporary SPP embodied the State's intent to reform Queensland's planning system to facilitate economic growth in the agriculture, construction, mining and tourism sectors, which have been identified by the State Government as the "four pillars of the economy".

Other post election commitments of the Queensland Government included the return of planning and assessment powers to local governments, and the development of a single State Planning Policy embodying all of the State's interests to enable local governments to more easily reflect and balance these interests in its own planning instruments and assessments.