Key Changes for
RiskSMART Consultants
Session Outline
1. Introduction
2. Overview of key components of Brisbane City Plan 2014
 Part 5 – Tables of assessment
 Part 6 – Zones
 Part 8 – Overlays
 RiskSMART relevant overlays and development codes
3. Policy comparison
4. Walking distance
5. Summary
Session purpose
• Provide an overview of the Brisbane City Plan 2014 specific for
RiskSMART
• Highlight the key changes from the Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014 – Part 5
Tables of assessment
• Identifies exempt and state prescribed levels of assessment
• Contains all level of assessment tables
•
Material change of use
•
Reconfiguration of a lot
•
Building work
•
Operational work
•
Neighbourhood plans
•
Overlays
Brisbane City Plan 2014 – Part 5
Tables of assessment, cont
• Contains rules for determining the level of assessment
• Code notifiable assessment no longer exists
• Expanded self assessable provisions
• Increased opportunity for code assessable development
• Overlays and neighbourhood plans can alter the level of
assessment
• Identify applicable assessment criteria
Brisbane City Plan 2014 – Part 6 Zones
What do the zones have to offer?
• Purpose statements clearly confirm building height expectations in
residential zones
• Low density residential and Character residential - up to
2 storeys
• Low-medium density residential - up to 3 storeys
• Medium density residential - up to 5 storeys
• High density residential - up to 15 storeys
• Overall outcomes in the zone codes are clear with strong links to
other parts of Brisbane City Plan 2014 including neighbourhood
plan codes and the strategic framework, i.e. line of sight
• General outcomes provide detailed intents for development
location, uses and development form
• Specific overall outcomes provide detailed intents for
development in the zone precincts
• Impact assessable developments that are not supported in the
zone are identified
Brisbane City Plan 2014 – Part 6 Zones
What do the zones have to offer?
3. New zones
4. Introduction
of zone
precincts
• New zones have been added that have no
equivalents in Brisbane City Plan 2000
• Mixed use
• Rural residential
• Township
• Tourist accommodation
Some zones have been broken down into precincts to
provide more detail for particular areas of the city, e.g.
parkland has precincts for local, district and metropolitan
scale sites
Brisbane City Plan 2014 – Part 8
Overlays
What do the overlays have to offer?
1. Upfront planning
considerations
2. Relocation of
citywide
planning
considerations
from
neighbourhood
plans
• Overlays detail upfront planning considerations that
exist citywide and sit over neighbourhood plan
areas, e.g. streetscape hierarchy
• Overlays are part of providing as much upfront
information to applicants, i.e. providing clarity,
certainty and transparency
• E.g. citywide transport components that existed in
neighbourhood plans are now in:
• Bicycle network overlay
• Road hierarchy overlay
• Streetscape hierarchy
• Priority infrastructure plan
Overview of Selected Overlays Relevant
to RiskSMART
Applicable overlay
Section number
Biodiversity areas overlay code
8.2.4
Dwelling house character overlay
-
Heritage overlay code
8.2.12
Pre-1911 building overlay code
8.2.16
Significant landscape tree overlay code
8.2.19
Traditional building character overlay code (design and
demolition elements)
8.2.21 & 8.2.22
Transport air quality corridor overlay code
8.2.23
Transport noise corridor overlay code
8.2.24
Overview of Brisbane City Plan 2014
Residential Development Codes
Applicable code
Section number
Dwelling house code
9.3.7
Dwelling house (small lot) code
9.3.8
Dual occupancy code
9.3.6
Multiple dwelling code
9.3.14
Short term accommodation code
9.3.22
Rooming accommodation code
9.3.19
Residential care facility code
9.3.18
Tourist park and relocatable home park code
9.3.29
Policy Comparison
Dwelling House Code
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Dwelling house code
House code
• Maximum building height
for a house 8.5 m in all
zones
9.3.7 Dwelling house code
• Side setbacks removed and defer
to QDC
• 9.5 m and 2 storeys
• Dwelling house character overlay
is the trigger
Dwelling house code - secondary dwellings
House code
• Secondary dwellings
regulated in the House
code
9.3.7 Dwelling House code
• Self assessable outcome
2
• Floor area changed from 70 m to
2
80 m
Dwelling House Code/s Policy
Comparison
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Dwelling house (small lot) code
• Small lot code - designed for detached
2
houses on lots generally on 400 m
Minimum of 1.5 m to wall, with minimum
0.9 m setback for eaves and window
hoods. Built to boundary walls are:
• Limited to one side boundary
• Limited to non-habitable
rooms with no windows or
openings to the side
boundary
• Max total length of 9 m
• Max average height of 3.5 m
• Max height of 4.5 m
• No closer than 1. 5 m to a window in a
habitable room of an adjoining dwelling
• Habitable - 1.0 m up to 7.5 m
• Garage side setback to walls - 0.5 m
• Neighbours’ consent not required
reduced boundary setbacks
• Restructured for ease of use
• 9.5 m overall height
• Variety of built to boundary outcomes
for houses not in LDR and adjoining
2
lots >400 m
• Allow matched built to boundary walls
• Limited code assessment
• No notification of code assessment
Multiple Dwellings Policy Comparison
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Multiple dwellings
• Chapter 3 - Areas and
assessment processes
• Multiple dwellings impact
assessable in most cases
• Some neighbourhood
plans made them code
assessable
• Some neighbourhood plans provisions for precincts of
increased intensity to provide a
building height transition to
adjacent areas of low intensity
development
• Some neighbourhood plans
included provisions for deep
planting
• Multiple dwellings in the Low medium
density residential (LMR) zone are code
assessable in many cases
• Impact assessment triggered by heights
• 3 storey multiple dwellings in the LMR 2 or 3
storey precinct are only code assessable
where they are within 400 m walking
distance of railway or bus station and front a
road with a reserve width of 15.5 m or more
• Provisions for building height transitions
between areas of higher and low intensity
development are incorporated into the
Multiple dwelling code
• Provisions for deep planting apply to
development, where appropriate, through
the Multiple dwelling code
Rooming Accommodation and Dual
Occupancy Policy Comparison
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Rooming accommodation
• Chapter 5 - Codes and related
provisions
• Student/rooming accommodation
not regulated separately
• Multi-unit dwelling definition
includes ‘hostel’
• Chapter 3 – Areas and assessment
process for boarding houses and
hostels
• Rooming accommodation code
• Policy change - Rooming
accommodation code covers two
different types:
• 5 or less occupants (i.e.
house)
• 6 or more occupants (i.e.
multiple dwelling)
Dual occupancy code
• Development of this type was an
undefined use and assessed as a
multi-unit dwelling
• New code
• Same provisions as Multiple
dwelling code
Car Parking Policy Comparison
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Transport, access, parking and servicing planning scheme policy
Car parking for multiple dwellings close to public transport
Within 200 m of a rail, busway, ferry
or 100 m of major road (except where
regulated parking)
• Min. 0.75 spaces / small or 1 bedroom
dwelling
• Min. 1.25 spaces /medium dwelling
• Min. 1.5 spaces / large or 3 bedroom
dwelling
• + min. 0.25 for visitors
Within 400 m walking distance of public transport
interchange and in City Frame
• Min. 0.9 spaces / 1 bedroom dwelling
• Min. 1.1 spaces / 2 bedroom dwelling
• Min. 1.3 spaces / 3 bedroom dwelling
• Min. 0.15 spaces per dwelling for visitor
parking
Transport, access, parking and servicing planning scheme policy
Car parking for multiple dwellings NOT close to public transport
• Min. 1 spaces / small or 1 bedroom
dwelling
• Min. 1.25 spaces /medium dwelling
• Min. 1.5 spaces / large or 3 bedroom
dwelling
• + min. 0.25 spaces for visitors
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•
•
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Min. 1 / 1 bedroom dwelling
Min. 1.25 / 2 bedroom dwelling
Min. 1.5 / 3 bedroom dwelling
+ min. 0.15 spaces per dwelling for visitor
parking
Subdivision Policy Comparison
Brisbane City Plan 2000
Brisbane City Plan 2014
Subdivision code
• Minimum lot size Character residential
2
area 450 m
• Minimum lot size of 450 m in the Character residential
2
(Character) zone precinct, 300 m where within the
Character residential (Infill housing) zone precinct
• Minimum lot size LDR and Character
residential (where not
2
in the DCP) 400m
• Minimum lot size Low density
residential (where in
2
the DCP) 450m
• 300 m - Low density residential zone where within
200 m walking distance of a site or sites in a zone in
the Centre zones category with a combined site area of
2
more than 2000 m ; or
2
• 400m , where greater than 200 m walking distance of a
site or sites in a centre zone comprising more than
2
2,000 m
• Re-structuring of supporting tables for small lots and
standard lots
• Range of minimum lot sizes in LMR zone of less than
2
400 m
2
2
Defining Walking Distance
Properties within 200m walking distance of a centre 2000m2 or greater
Defining Walking Distance
Properties not within 200m walking distance of a centre 2000m or greater due to
obstacles, or properties that are not publicly accessible
Summary
• Aims to balance growth of the city and protecting essential
characteristics
• Ensures Brisbane City Council’s development assessment process
will be more streamlined
• By reducing regulation levels, the development assessment process
will:
• Provide guidance to applicants on what can and cannot be done
• Allow for more ‘self’ and ‘code’ assessments as part of the
assessment process
• Have shorter timeframes
• Reduce costs (or in some cases, have no DA cost)
• Be understood by infrequent or first-time applicants