Koala conservation and sustainability areas
The draft South East Queensland Koala State Planning Regulatory Provisions came into effect on 12 December 2008. The Department of Infrastructure and Planning is now the concurrence agency under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 for defined development in Urban Koala Areas and in Koala Sustainability Areas that are within the Urban Footprint as defined in the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-2026. You can find out if your property is within the Urban Footprint by using the Department of Infrastructure and Planning interactive mapping tool.
Please contact the Department of Infrastructure and Planning regarding assessing applications within the Urban Footprint at www.dip.qld.gov.au or
Department of Infrastructure and Planning
Southern Region Planning Group
Postal address: Reply Paid 15009 City East
Brisbane Qld 4002
By fax: + 61 7 3235 4071
By email: seqkoalareview@dip.qld.gov.au
All enquiries phone: Free call 1800 070 609
Copies of the draft State Planning Regulatory Provisions are available for inspection and collection free of charge from the Department of Infrastructure and Planning Brisbane Office, Ground Level at 63 George Street, and from the department Customer Service Centre, Ground Level, 160 Ann Street, Brisbane.
Development within Koala Conservation Areas and Koala Sustainability Areas in SEQ Region
The Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2006 and Management Program 2006-2016 (the Koala Plan) came into effect on 2 October 2006.
One of the main purposes of the Koala Plan is to promote future land use and development that is compatible with the survival of koala populations in the wild.
To achieve this, the department will take on the role of concurrence agency1 responsible for assessing development in Koala Conservation Areas and Koala Sustainability Areas against a set of koala conservation criteria contained in Section 5 of the Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2006 and Management Program 2006-2016.
The department is currently developing policies, guidelines and information sheets that will provide detailed information about the development assessment process. This page will be updated when these policies, guidelines and fact sheets become available. Current development application forms for koala assessment can now be found on the Department of Local Government Planning and Sport website. Fact sheets including: koalas and cars, koala conservation, and development in koala habitat areas are now available.
Pre-design conferencing is available to all prospective applicants seeking direction and advice regarding development applications in Koala Habitat Areas.
1 Schedule 2 of the Integrated Planning Regulation 1998 sets out the role and referral jurisdiction of the department for development relevant to koala conservation, being that of a concurrence agency for the purposes of the Nature Conservation Act 1992. In undertaking this role the department will consider the Nature Conservation Act and the Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2006 and Management Program 2006-2016, including the koala conservation criteria. These criteria are consistent with the Integrated Planning Act 1997, section 3.3.15, which states the matters against which a concurrence agency must assess a development application.
Last updated: 12 December 2008