Queensland Numbered Acts

PLANNING ACT 2016 - SECT 311

311 Structure plans

(1) To remove any doubt, it is declared that each structure plan made by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council stopped having effect on 21 May 2014.

(2) A structure plan made by the Gold Coast City Council or Redland City Council stops having effect when a planning scheme stated in subsection (3) is made.

(3) The Gold Coast City Council or Redland City Council may make a planning scheme in relation to a declared master planned area under the old Act after the Minister notifies the council that the Minister considers the planning scheme—

(a) is consistent with the strategic intent of the structure plan for the declared master planned area; and

(b) does not affect the development entitlements or development responsibilities, in the structure plan, in an adverse and material way.

(4) The Cairns Regional Council or Moreton Bay Regional Council may make a planning scheme in relation to a declared master planned area under the old Act after the Minister notifies the council that the Minister considers the planning scheme addresses the matters in the old Act, section 761A(4).

(5) An agreement (a
"funding agreement" ) to fund the preparation of a structure plan under the unamended old Act, section 143, is not cancelled just because of the repeal of the old Act.

(6) A local government may apply funds received under a funding agreement to fulfil the local government’s responsibilities under subsections (3) or (4), as required by the local government’s policy under the unamended old Act, section 143(2).

(7) In this section—

"structure plan" means a structure plan made under the old Act, chapter 4, as in force on 21 November 2012.

"unamended old Act" means the old Act as in force on 21 November 2012.