LOCAL PLANNING POLICY REVIEW

(PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF THE LOCAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK)

AND PROPOSED FOOD AND WINE SALES PROVISIONS

Pursuant to Clause 103 of District Town Planning Scheme No. 20 Council has adopted, for the purposes of community consultation, the draft "Local Planning Policy" and the "Policy Framework".

The Policy seeks to reformat and consolidate the Shire's current local planning policy framework to achieve previously identified objectives. It also generally updates the currency of all policies, proposes substantive changes to a limited number of policies, as well as introducing a new policy initiative. The policy  changes will develop a more coherent and logical approach to the Shire's local planning policy framework by:

• Amending the Community Facilities Implementation Policy, the Percent for Art Policy, the Commonage Implementation Policy, the Mosquito Contribution Policy and Car parking Policy to index the contribution rates in these policies to the General Construction Index (GCI);

• Defining the eligible uses; and removing delegation provisions for Percent for Art Policy; and incorporate a review of the Percent for Art and Community Facilities Implementation Policy every 5 years rather than annually;

• Deleting reference to Terms and Definitions from all policies where these conflict with the Scheme, or these terms are replaced by reference to definitions in other more relevant source documents;

• Adopting local planning policy provisions for the Dunsborough Lakes Service Industry Park;

• Amending the Rural Tourist Accommodation Policy to align with the rural strata provisions of the Local Rural Planning Strategy (2006);

• Adopting draft reviewed existing Policies - Busselton Heritage and Special Character Area Policies (renamed Adelaide Street Special Character Area Provisions), and the Residential Design Guidelines Policy (renamed Residential Development Policy.)

• Introducing a new Policy - Food and Wine Sales provisions;

• Rescinding the following policies - Residential Design and Landscaping Guidelines on Controlled Access Roads - Including Entry Statements Requirements Policy, Viticulture Subdivision Policy, Dams Policy, Abbey Green Performance Standards, Floodplain Development and Management Policy Residential Design and Landscaping Guidelines on Controlled Access Highways and the Town Centre Development Policy and incorporating elements of these policies into the new policy framework as appropriate;

• Making various minor amendments to current polices to improve their implementation;

• Adopting the amended policies and draft new policy as policy provisions within a consolidated and reformatted framework of 9 policies;

A copy of the draft Policy may be viewed at the Shire Offices, Southern Drive, Busselton and the Busselton and Dunsborough Libraries during opening hours.  Persons wishing to make a submission should do so in writing to the undersigned (quoting Reference No. PCY 13) prior to close of business  11 December 2009.

If you have any queries on the above policy please call David Brash Ph:9781 0481.

ANDREW MACNISH
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
BUSSELTON SHIRE COUNCIL
LOCKED BAG 1
BUSSELTON  WA  6280