Report
Incorporating Ecosystem Services into the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme
University of the Sunshine Coast
2021
Abstract
Incorporating ecosystem services into the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme is part of a suite technical outputs comprising the Policy and Planning Resource Series that have been prepared under the Valuing the Sunshine Coast’s Natural Assets project. The report incorporates and updates earlier work published by SEQ Catchments as part of the SEQ Ecosystem Services Project (2005-2010). The report provides a broad overview of the Queensland planning framework as it relates to local government planning and operations and highlights key instances in which ecosystem services are explicitly referenced or otherwise implied in the related Acts, Regulations, Plans, Schemes, and other components of the policy and planning framework. In doing so, the report provides planners and policy makers information on how the concepts of ecosystem functions, ecosystem processes, and ecosystem services are currently embodied in the hierarchy of statutory and non-statutory instruments and what this implies in terms of planning and assessment obligations for local governments. The report also incorporates and updates the outcomes of a 2010 workshop involving 33 local government representatives (one Strategic Planner, one Community Planner and one Environmental Planner from each of the 11 local government areas in the SEQ region) which reviewed local government operations, plans and activities for their potential to purposefully and strategically incorporate ecosystem services into them. Finally, the report includes a desk-top review of the 12 current local government planning schemes in the SEQ planning region to determine where and how ecosystem services are included in comparable planning schemes. As a whole, the report seeks to provide relevant analysis of alternative ways in which the new Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme (currently under development) could enhance the incorporation ecosystem functions and ecosystem services. This includes specific discussion of the potential for ecosystem services to be incorporated within the various components of the planning scheme including the Strategic Framework, Local Government Infrastructure Plans, Development Assessment Tables, Zones, Codes, Local Plans, Overlays, Structure Plans, and Planning Scheme Policy.
Details
- Title
- Incorporating Ecosystem Services into the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme
- Authors
- Simone Maynard (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and EngineeringGraham Ashford (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Science, Technology and Engineering
- Publication details
- 42 pages
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2021
- Copyright note
- © 2021 the authors. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Grants
- Valuing the Sunshine Coast's Natural Assets, 0980025690, Sunshine Coast Council (Australia)
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99731298902621
- Output Type
- Report
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