Draft Major Planning Scheme Amendment 7 - Business Improvement and Innovation

Council is proposing an amendment to the Central Highlands Regional Council Planning Scheme 2016 to support business improvement and innovation. We are currently seeking feedback from community and other stakeholders to inform any changes to the proposed amendment.
What are the changes included in the amendment?
Draft Major Planning Scheme Amendment No. 7 – Business Improvement and Innovation incorporates a broad suite of improvements to and in support of innovation in the areas of tourism, agriculture, emerging technologies, mapping, reduction of red tape to support new or expanding businesses, improving urban amenity, updating outdated references.
A few of the key changes are listed under the relevant themes below. These are explained in greater detail in the information sheets on the right-hand side of the page (or below on a mobile device).
Theme 1 – Promoting Tourism
- Lowering the levels of assessment for new tourism activities
- Supporting accommodation for Tourism Workers in Key Tourism Areas
- Establishment of Ecotourism and Tourism precincts
- Supporting inclusion of Electric vehicle charging stations
Theme 2 – Nurturing Agribusiness
- Diversifying income - lowering levels of assessment for various industries located in the rural zone
- Changes to minimum lot sizes and subdivision by lease
- Removing quantitative triggers for operational works for earthworks in rural areas
Theme 3 – Red tape reduction and improving clarity
- Lowering the level of assessment to support new business applications
- Renovating the Table of Assessment for Building Works
- Supporting agistment on council owned or managed land
- Reduced boundary realignment requirements
Theme 4 – Keeping our towns beautiful
- Incorporating amenity and aesthetics
- Revision of minimum on-site parking requirements to reduce parking overflow
- Height restrictions of buildings and structures
Theme 5 – Mapping and administrative changes
- General review to fix minor spelling and grammar mistakes and to make the document easier to use and understand.
- Changes to strategic framework mapping, zoning and other overlays that reflect updates to council data, development approvals or proposed land use changes under this amendment or to align with changes to state mapping layers i.e. vegetation mapping, recent subdivisions
- Updates to versions of standards, legislation or guidelines referenced in the planning scheme which were outdated.
How to view the amendment
You can view the proposed amendment online in our eplan which outlines the proposed changes. This is displayed similar to a tracked change version. Submissions can also be made directly online through this program.
You can also search for your property in the eplan to check if any of the proposed mapping updates will affect your property.
Alternatively, you can view the amendment by reviewing the document library on this page.
How to get involved
The formal public consultation period for the Draft Major Planning Scheme Amendment No. 7 (Business Improvement and Innovation) closed on 28 April 2023.
Over the next couple months council:
- will consider every submission to the proposed amendment;
- may make changes to the proposed amendment in response to the properly made submissions;
- will advise each submitter, in writing, how their submission was considered and, if appropriate, incorporated into the amendment;
- will publish the results of the public consultation process on this page.
If you haven't made a submission but want to be kept up-to-date, you can:
- regularly check back on this page
- subscribe to receive updates about this project through this page (see subscribe link on the side of the page)
- or register to receive email updates (just send a request to planningscheme@chrc.qld.gov.au).
For enquiries about this consultation, please contact council's Strategic Land Use team (details on the side of the page or bottom of the page on a mobile device).
Private appointments can be arranged by contacting council's Strategic Land Use team on 1300 242 686 or via an email to planningscheme@chrc.qld.gov.au.