BRISBANE CITY PLAN 2014
CITYWIDE UPDATE – AMENDMENT PACKAGE A – ADOPTED
Brisbane City Council is delivering on a strong plan to ensure our city has the services and infrastructure to meet the needs of future generations, and continues to be a great place to live, work and relax. Council has made amendments to Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan) so that City Plan remains effective and up-to-date.
The amendments to City Plan reflect changes in legislation as well as community and industry input in recent development assessment and neighbourhood planning processes.
The amendment package followed the ‘major amendment’ process as outlined in the Queensland Government’s guideline for Making and amending local planning instruments.
What is in the amendment package?
Amendment Package A – 2016 includes changes across a range of citywide provisions that are intended to:
• improve management of the interface between sensitive and industrial uses
• increase provisions for addressing local circumstances of topography and flood immunity in relation to the height of homes
• improve refuse collection, traditional building character, heritage and pre-1911 provisions
• refine the operation of the Biodiversity areas overlay provisions and align with the Queensland Government’s Environmental Offsets Act 2014
• strengthen measures to ensure existing infrastructure (e.g. the Story Bridge) is protected from encroachment by development to ensure it can be maintained
• improve rooming accommodation, reconfiguring a lot, prescribed accepted development and neighbourhood plan provisions
• update zoning maps and overlays, including the Dwelling house character overlay, Heritage overlay, Pre-1911 building overlay and Traditional building character overlay.
Amenity/industry
Council made amendments to better manage the interface between sensitive uses and sources of industrial pollutants. The amendments include:
• refinement of the Industrial amenity overlay code with regard to the distance at which the requirement for an air quality impact report is triggered
• ensuring that new sensitive development considers the proximity of existing spray painting workshops
• requiring non-retail fuel dispensing (hazardous goods store) to achieve appropriate environmental performance.
Houses
Council made amendments to the Dwelling house code and Dwelling house (small lot) code to provide clarity around the height of homes. The proposed amendments allow:
• part of a home to be three storeys where responding to the way the site slopes
• a home to be higher than neighbouring properties where providing minimum floor levels for flood safety.
Refuse
Council made amendments to improve the design requirements for refuse arrangements. The proposed amendments include:
• the types of bin and waste collection trucks, collection point and storage requirements, dimensions, location and access requirements for waste
• additional circumstances where refuse vehicles are not required to turn around on multiple dwelling sites
• increasing the number of multiple dwellings (up to 10) that can be serviced by kerbside collection rather than onsite bulk bins
• updating the types of waste collection vehicles types to reflect the most modern vehicles in use.
Heritage and character
Council made amendments to the heritage and character provisions including:
• recognising that all pre-1946 architectural styles including masonry as well as ‘timber and tin’ are to be retained in the Traditional building character overlay
• ensuring the assessment of traditional building character is applied only to the part of a street within the Traditional building character overlay, as opposed to the entire length of the street
• adding a number of local heritage places to the Heritage overlay identified through the
neighbourhood planning process, surveys and community nominations, including the identification of Anzac cottages, which recognises their important role in the housing of WW1 returned soldiers, and widows of soldiers.
Biodiversity
Council made amendments to the Biodiversity areas overlay code and associated planning scheme policies and these include:
• clarifying the provisions for development footprint plans (to ensure that location and design is more appropriate and that intrusion into High or General ecological significance sub-categories is minimised)
• clarifying the requirements for areas intended for future revegetation
• updated information for ecological assessments including vegetation communities in Brisbane and to meet current national and state listings and scientific names
• alignment of City Plan provisions with the Environmental Offsets Framework set out in the Queensland Government’s Environmental Offsets Act 2014.
Exemptions
Council made amendments to the Prescribed accepted development table to improve its usability and clarify or include circumstances where development is exempt. The amendments include exemptions for:
• markets and outdoor theatre/cinema in areas where building and operational work is not required
• doors on double carports outside the building footprint on a small lot
• internal building work for buildings in the Traditional building character overlay, Pre-1911 building overlay and Commercial character building overlay.
Mapping
Council made amendments to zoning maps and the Dwelling house character overlay, Heritage overlay, Pre-1911 building overlay and Traditional building character overlay. The amendments include:
• recognising additional heritage buildings
• updates to the Pre-1911 overlay and the Traditional building character overlay to more accurately reflect existing circumstances.
Register for updates
To be kept up to date about amendments to City Plan, please register by sending an email to
More information
• Call 3403 8888
• Visit brisbane.qld.gov.au and search for ‘Amendments to City Plan’