Industrial Development and
Reverse Amenity
Session outline
1.
Introduction
2.
Policy setting and comparison
a.
Industry zones
b.
Industry definitions
c. Industry code
d.
Industrial amenity overlay code
e.
Planning scheme policies
3.
Session Purpose
 Protect health and wellbeing of the community
 Manage the interface between industry and sensitive uses
 Promote economic development
 Protect industrial areas from residential encroachment in
alignment with Strategic Framework
Policy Setting
 Appropriate location of industrial uses
 Better management of impacts of industrial uses
 Reduced amount of assessment required for industrial
development while still protecting sensitive uses, i.e. reducing
development costs
 Faster development application assessment times
 Ensure that sensitive development is not exposed to adverse
air, noise or hazards impacts
 Protect existing industry from residential encroachment
 Ensure alignment with State Planning Policies
Policy Comparison
Industry Zones
Brisbane City Plan
2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Light industry area
Low impact industry zone
General industry area
General Industry land has been allocated to one of the
following zones to ensure appropriate buffers between
sensitive uses and inappropriate industrial activities:
• Industry zone - General industry A zone precinct
• Industry zone - General industry B zone precinct
• Industry zone - General industry C zone precinct
Heavy industry area
Heavy industry land has been allocated to one of the
following zones to ensure appropriate buffers between
sensitive uses and inappropriate industrial activities:
• Industry zone - General industry C zone precinct
• Special industry zone
Future industry area
Industry investigation zone
Policy Comparison
Industry Definition
Brisbane City Plan 2000 Brisbane City Plan 2014
Schedule 1 Industries
Schedule 2 Industries
Schedule 1 Table SC1.1.1.B - Use Definitions
Contains QPP industry use definitions, e.g.
• Low impact industry
• Medium impact industry
• High impact industry
• Special industry
Schedule 1 Table SC1.1.3 - Industry thresholds
Includes examples of industry uses to help identify which
definition a specific industry use falls under
Policy Comparison
Example of industry definition changes
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Schedule 1 Industry - Chapter 3 Areas and assessment processes
Metal surface coating: commercial spray
painting (including spray painting motor
vehicles) and powder coating in works
having an annual throughput of metal
products of less than 10,000 tonnes
Medium impact industry - Table SC1.1.3—Industry
thresholds
Spray painting workshop including spray painting
vehicles, heavy machinery, signs, equipment or boats, if
using:
(i) less than 20,000 litres of paint product per annum;
(ii) spray equipment other than the sole use of aerosol
cans or air brush.
Schedule 2 Industry - Chapter 3 Areas and assessment processes
Beverage production: commercially
producing any beer or other alcoholic or
non–alcoholic beverage in works
producing 200,000L or more a year
High impact industry - Table SC1.1.3—Industry
thresholds
Food, beverages or pet food processing, smoking, drying,
curing, milling, bottling or canning works, if producing 200
tonnes or more per annum
Policy Comparison
Development codes
Brisbane City Plan
2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Industrial Amenity and
Performance Code
Industry code
• Criteria for assessment of air quality, noise, hazardous
chemicals are contained within the code
• Acceptable outcomes reduce the amount of assessment
(e.g. scientific reports or level of assessment)
Industrial Design Code
Industrial Areas –
Adjacent Development
Code
Industrial amenity overlay code
• Industrial amenity investigation area sub-category for air
quality or noise impacts
• Industrial hazard investigation area sub-category for
chemical hazards (fire, explosion or toxic release)
Industry Code
 Applies to new industrial development
 Compliance with a Performance Outcome can be demonstrated
by
– Complying with the Acceptable Outcomes, or
– the submission of a scientific report
 Acceptable Outcomes are not mandatory
 Planning Scheme Policies can provide guidance on
– methodologies for scientific reports, or
– design measures that form an Acceptable Outcome
Planning Scheme Policies
• PSPs containing methodologies for scientific reports
– Air quality PSP
– Industrial hazard and risk assessment PSP
– Management of hazardous chemicals in flood affected areas PSP
– Management plans PSP
– Noise impact assessment PSP
• PSPs containing industry design measures
– Management of hazardous chemicals in flood affected areas PSP
– Storage and dispensing of petroleum products PSP
– Concrete batching plants PSP
Industrial Amenity Overlay Code
 Applies within the industrial amenity overlay
 Protects existing industry from encroachment of incompatible
development
 Ensures that encroaching sensitive development is adequately
protected from industrial pollution and hazards
Industrial Amenity Overlay
Industrial Amenity Overlay
• Industrial amenity investigation area sub-category
protects sensitive development from adverse air quality or
noise impacts
• Industrial hazard investigation area sub-category protects
from adverse chemical hazards (fire, explosion or toxic
release)
Summary
• Manage the interface between industry and residential areas
• Reduced amount of assessment required for industrial
development while still protecting sensitive uses
• Ensure that sensitive development is not exposed to adverse
air, noise or hazards impacts
• Protect industrial areas from residential encroachment