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The Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Kate Jones MP, announced the draft State Planning Policy Healthy Waters (SPP) and the draft State Planning Policy Guideline for Healthy Waters in State Parliament on 16 September 2009. Minister Jones stated that under the final SPP “development applications would need to show how developers have adopted water-sensitive urban design principles” and “address the construction phase of a proposed development”. The Minister also announced a “new development assessment code to guide decisions about development affecting waterway health”. The full Ministerial Media Statement is available from the Queensland Government website. Two additional documents have also been released by the State to assist in the implementation and interpretation of the SPP namely the draft Urban Stormwater – Queensland Best Practice Environmental Management Guideline and the draft Technical Note: Derivation of Design Objectives 2009. The full suite of documents can be downloaded from the Department of Environment and Resource Management website. Submissions on this suite of documents are invited until 30 November 2009. Submission forms and advice on how to make a submission are also available from the Department’s website. The SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership has further supported the implementation of the draft SPP with the release of the Water Sensitive Urban Design Deemed to Comply Solutions – Stormwater Quality for South East Queensland (Draft) and the Water Sensitive Urban Design Deemed to Comply Solutions – Worked Solutions and Examples (Draft), available from the Water by Design website. Submissions on the these documents are also invited until 30 November 2009. Submission contact details for the Deemed to Comply documents is outlined on the Water by Design website.
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