Acknowledgement Notice

Acknowledgement notice

Sustainable Planning Act 2009 s.268

[file reference]

[contact name]

[contact number]

[date]

[applicant’s name]

[applicant’s address]

RE:Development application for [details of proposed development]

[street number and address of proposed development]

[lot and plan details of proposed development]

Dear [sir/madam/name]

I acknowledge receipt of the above application on [insert date application received]and confirm the following details:

1.Details of the application

The application seeks development approval for[tick applicable box/es]

Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009, schedule 3 reference

Development Permit

Preliminary Approval

Carrying out building work (assessable under the Building Act 1975) /

Part 1, table 1, item 1

Carrying out building work in a declared fish habitat area (assessable against the Fisheries Act 1994) /

Part 1, table 1, item 2

Carrying out building work assessable under the planning scheme, a temporary local planning instrument, a master plan or a preliminary approval to which section 242 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA) applies
Making a material change of use assessable under the planning scheme, a temporary local planning instrument, a master plan or a preliminary approval to which SPA section 242 applies
Carrying out associated work made assessable by the planning scheme:
-building work
- operational work
Uses made assessable under the planning scheme by a Regional Plan
Making a material change of use for an environmentally relevant activity /

Part 1, table 2, item 1

Making a material change of use for a brothel /

Part 1, table 2, item 2

Making a material change of use on strategic port land that is inconsistent with an approved land use plan /

Part 1, table 2, item 3

Making a material change of use on airport land that is inconsistent with the approved land use plan /

Part 1, table 2, item 4

Making a material change of use for a major hazard facility or possible major hazard facility /

Part 1, table 2, item 5

Making a material change of use where all or part of the premises involves contaminated land /

Part 1, table 2, item 6, 7, 8 & 9

Making a material change of use for aquaculture /

Part 1, table 2, item 10

Making a material change of use for agricultural or animal husbandry activities in a wild river area /

Part 1, table 2, item 11

Reconfiguring a lot /

Part 1, table 3, item 1

Operational work for the clearing of native vegetation /

Part 1, table 4, item 1

Operational work for reconfiguring a lot, if the reconfiguration is also assessable development /

Part 1, table 4, item 2

Operational work that allows taking or interfering with water /

Part 1, table 4, item 3

Operational work for a referable dam or that will increase the storage capacity of a referable dam by more than 10% /

Part 1, table 4, item 4

Operational work for tidal works or work within a coastal management district /

Part 1, table 4, item 5

Operational work that is the constructing or raising of a waterway barrier works /

Part 1, table 4, item 6

Operational work that is completely or partly within a declared fish habitat area /

Part 1, table 4, item 7

Operational work that is the removal, destruction or damage of a marine plant /

Part 1, table 4, item 8

Operational work for agricultural or animal husbandry activities in a wild river area if the operations are declared to be assessable under a wild river declaration /

Part 1, table 4, item 9

Operational work assessable under the planning scheme, a temporary local planning instrument, a master plan or a preliminary approval to which section 242 of SPA applies
Development for removing quarry material from a watercourse or lake (if an allocation notice is required under the Water Act 2000) /

Part 1, table 5, item 1

Development on a Queensland heritage place
- Building work assessable under the Building Act 1975
- Building works assessable under the planning scheme
- Plumbing or drainage work
- Material change of use
- Reconfiguring a lot
- Operational work /

Part 1, table 5, item 2

Development on a local heritage place
- Building work assessable under the Building Act 1975
- Building works assessable under the planning scheme
- Plumbing or drainage work
- Material change of use
- Reconfiguring a lot
- Operational work /

Part 1, table 5, item 3

Development for a mobile and temporary environmentally relevant activity (ERA) for which a code of environmental compliance has not been approved or made /

Part 1, table 5, item 4

Development for an environmentally relevant activity (ERA) (other than an agricultural ERA, a mining activity or a chapter 5A activity) for which a code of environmental compliance has been approved or made, if it is in a wild river area /

Part 1, table 5, item 5

Development on strategic port land if the land use plan for the strategic port land states the development is assessable development /

Part 1, table 5, item 6

Development on airport land if the land use plan for the airport land states the development is assessable development /

Part 1, table 5, item 7

Development that is assessable development under a state planning regulatory provision
- Building work
- Material change of use
- Reconfiguring a lot
- Operational work

2.Code assessment

The following aspects of the development applied for require code assessment:

Aspects of the development requiring code assessment / Name of all codes that may be applicable codes
[insert all aspects of the development requiring code assessment in a separate row. If none, write ‘none’] / [for each aspect of the development requiring code assessment, list the codes that the assessment manager considers may be applicable codes]

3.Impact assessment

The following aspects of the development applied for require impact assessment:

Aspects of the development requiring impact assessment
[list all aspects of the development requiring impact assessment in a separate point. If none, write ‘none’]

4.Public Notification[delete if not applicable]

Public notification of the application must be given as this application [tick applicable box/es]:

requires impact assessment—the whole of the application must be publicly notified in accordance

with the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA)

is an application to which section 242 of SPA applies.

Requirements for public notification

The requirements for public notification are set out in SPA, chapter 6, part 4. You should have regard to the legislation when carrying out the public notification. In summary, you are required to:

publish a notice at least once in a newspaper circulating generally in the locality of the land
place a notice on the land in the way prescribed under the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009

(SPR), and

give a notice to the owners of all land adjoining the land.

All of the above notices must be in the approved form available on the Department of Infrastructure and Planning’s website at

The notification period for the application must be at least: [tick applicable box]

15 business days (not including any business days between and including 20 December in a

particular year and 5 January in the following year) or

30 business days (not including any business days between and including 20 December in a

particular year and 5 January in the following year)as the application involves one or more of the

following:

three or more concurrence agencies

all or part of the development is assessable under a planning scheme and is prescribed

under a regulation

all or part of the development is the subject of an application for a preliminary approval

mentioned in section 242 of SPA.

The notice placed on the land must remain on the land for all of the notification period.

The applicant is required to undertake the public notification, unless the assessment manager carries out the notification on behalf of the applicant and with the applicant’s agreement.

5.Referral agencies

Based on the information provided in the application, referral is required to the following referral agencies [if there are no referral agencies, write ‘none’ and delete the table below]

For an application involving / Name of referral agency / Advice agency or concurrence agency / Address
[list aspect of development requiring referral] / [Insert name of the referral agency] / [Insert advice agency or concurrence agency, as relevant] / [Insert address for the referral agency]
[list next aspect of development requiring referral. Delete if not applicable]

This list is provided for your information only. It is the applicant’s responsibility to identify any referral agencies for the application and give each referral agency a copy of:

the application (including the application forms and supporting material)
this acknowledgment notice, and
any required application fee.

The above material must be given to all referral agencies within:

20 business days after the applicant receives this acknowledgement notice, or
the further period agreed between the assessment manager and the applicant.

If you do not give the material mentioned above to all referral agencies within these timeframes, the application will lapse (see section 273 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009).

6.Information request

A further information request may /will not be made by the assessment manager[tick applicable box]. Regardless of this advice, any concurrence agency for the application may also make an information request.

You are advised that the truth and accuracy of the information provided in the application form and accompanying information is relied on when assessing and deciding this application. If you find an inaccuracy in any of the information provided above or have a query or seek clarification about any of these details, please contact me on the above telephone number.

Yours sincerely

[delegate’ssignature and date]

[assessment manager’s name]