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RiskSmart applications
The former Hervey Bay City Council was approached in 2007 to participate in the RiskSmart project having been identified by the State Government as a high growth council. This project has now been carried over to the new council.
The Fraser Coast Regional Council has initially released three application types in the RiskSmart process – Reconfiguration of a Lot to create up to six (6) lots in the Park Residential, Low Density Residential and Medium Density Residential Zones of the Urban Locality, Hervey Bay City Planning Scheme 2006.
RiskSmart Initiative RiskSmart is a process that enables low-risk development applications to be quickly assessed against planning schemes provisions.
High economic and population growth in Queensland has meant that councils are experiencing a significant increase in development applications. RiskSmart streamlines processing of low-risk applications and in so doing:
- reduces development assessment timeframes
- provides confidence about council decisions
- improves the transparency of application assessment.
Benefits of RiskSmart
RiskSmart saves planners, developers and their clients both time and money
through a number of process improvements. This in turn improves the bottom
line for individuals.
- planning scheme provisions and decisions are transparent
- a front end check sheet is used to alert applicants to risks prior to the
- lodgement of their application
- low risk applications have faster turnaround times
- the speed of assessment for medium and high risk applications is
- improved as low risk applications are rapidly processed, freeing up council
- staff to deal with these applications
- application issues are isolated and assessed by relevant local council staff
- only, rather than the entire development assessment team, reducing
- assessment timeframes
- planning consultants can produce all the necessary documentation at the
- time of the submission. Applications can also be adjusted after lodgement,
- saving time in resubmission.RiskSmart saves planners, developers and their clients both time and money
- through a number of process improvements. This in turn improves the bottom
- line for individuals.
- planning scheme provisions and decisions are transparent
- a front end check sheet is used to alert applicants to risks prior to the
- lodgement of their application
- low risk applications have faster turnaround times
- the speed of assessment for medium and high risk applications is
- improved as low risk applications are rapidly processed, freeing up council
- staff to deal with these applications
- application issues are isolated and assessed by relevant local council staff
- only, rather than the entire development assessment team, reducing
- assessment timeframes
- planning consultants can produce all the necessary documentation at the
- time of the submission. Applications can also be adjusted after lodgement,
- saving time in resubmission.
How it Works
RiskSmart uses a series of questions relating to a selected “use type” (eg reconfiguration of a lot in the Low Density Zone) in a planning scheme to qualify the level of risk associated with a development. If the application is identified as low risk the outcome is a faster assessment turnaround for customers. This process provides greater transparency about council’s decision-making process.
The application forms necessary to be submitted for a RiskSmart application are available from Council’s offices at Tavistock Street, Torquay and Kent Street, Maryborough and the Fraser Coast Regional Council website.
Applications can only be lodged in person at Council's Hervey Bay and Maryborough administration centres.
The application will usually be assessed and a decision made within ten business days from the date the completed application is lodged with Council. However, if the forms are not properly completed, insufficient supporting material has been lodged or if you trigger assessment of a critical issue in the RiskSmart checklist then assessment may take longer than this.
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