The Regional Planning Interests Bill 2013 (Qld)
(Bill) was passed with amendments by the
Queensland Parliament on 20 March 2014. The Regional Planning
Interests Act 2014 (Act) will commence on a
date yet to be proclaimed.
HopgoodGanim's Planning and Environment team previously
published an
Alert explaining how the Bill would cause some Queensland
resource activities to be regulated under planning laws, and
recommended that several aspects of the Bill be revised or made
clear.
In this Alert, Partners David Nicholls and Sarah Macoun and
Associate Olivia Williamson discuss how the matters identified in
our previous
Alert have been dealt with in the Act.
Key points
- The Act continues to provide an appeal right to "affected
land owners". Uncertainty surrounding the definition of
"affected land owner" has not been resolved by the
Act.
