PIA Rural and Regional Conference Cairns • 11-13th Sept 2019 Demystifying the LGIP PIA Rural and Regional Conference Cairns • 11-13th Sept 2019

Demystifying the LGIP Presenters: Josie Raftery and Damian Rigby The purpose of the project is to respond to the State Interest of integrated land use and infrastructure planning by using innovation to: explain how the LGIP works demonstrate better planning for growth provide certainty to local governments and the development industry The project will result in a public-focussed communication tool (or tools) to assist local governments to explain how the LGIP works towards better planning for growth: Examples: Short animated video Fact Sheets Key Messages / infographics Gamification The project is a joint initiative of the Queensland Government and Toowoomba Regional Council in partnership with other local councils. In particular: Logan City Council, Gold Coast City Council and Redlands City Council However, all local government councils are considered key stakeholders and can benefit from the outcomes

Demystifying the LGIP The trouble with words… The problem with the use of words in communication. Interpretation. Perspective. Communication skill and short cuts. Same word…different meaning eg “Trunk”. Pronouncing acronyms? Is it “El Jeep” or the more Frenchy “L’Gip”? The innovation is the plan to Shift to using visual elements in storytelling for impact.

There has been almost continual change in the QLD infrastructure planning framework over the past decade. As a result the focus has been on adapting to and implementing the framework. There has been much less focus on engagement, with the main communications materials being fact sheets that are either too technical or too vague, reflecting the evolving definitions and language of the Planning Act itself

much of the public engagement (including the few public submissions on LGIPs) have been framed in simply explaining in a very basic sense what an LGIP is and does, rather than a framing a narrative around how it works and the various integration parts or the content. It’s a shallow surface snap shot of the LGIP, like a duck on a pond.

But there is a lot more involved in floating an LGIP …lot of work going on under the surface. The Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) is an important but poorly understood part of a local planning scheme that is an ongoing process of integration as much as a statutory document.

Detail Jargon

Detail Jargon

The story of the LGIP is not magical or mythical but it is important The story of the LGIP is not magical or mythical but it is important. The LGIP is critical in shaping urban places and guiding decision-making at all levels, from strategic planning for growth and financial sustainability, to clear development conditions and coordinated trunk infrastructure delivery.

CR ICN LGIP DSS PIA PAM TRUNK SOW

LGIP – “is the result of an integrated land use and infrastructure planning process that identifies the infrastructure necessary to support the intended urban development pattern of the local government area” means different things to different people depending on where they come in on that process. Program, plan, process, policy

The PIA is an area that local government identifies in which it will prioritise the provision of trunk infrastructure for the next 10-15 years. PIA – Tideline of affordability

“The DSS is a high level summary of the key planning and design standards that the local government will apply to its trunk infrastructure” DSS – avoids gold plating but ensures correct infrastructure.

Trunk Infrastructure is development infrastructure identified in an LGIP as trunk infrastructure. “higher-level infrastructure that is shared between multiple developments” that is not non-trunk infrastructure (infrastructure that is not shared with other development and is generally internal to a development site.) It is what you say it is (within a broad principal of shared benefit) considering both form and function.

PAM SOW – The LGIP software models Black boxes PAM SOW – The LGIP software models Black boxes. One converts land use (PS) assumptions to demand on infrastructure networks (distributed in both time and space) PAM. And the other balances the required program to ensure there is enough capacity in the system to keep up the standard of service with the expected revenue to come in from charging for all additional demand.

Give credit where credit is due Planning takes into account future demand not existing or past demand. CREDIT = recognition of current, or past, capacity supplied to the premises (based on previous or existing demand) or of previous payment

Council decide what to charge up to capped rate – set out in our Charges Resolution Maximum charges are set out in a schedule – determined by State Government