Opportunities that the planning reform presents for transport infrastructure Les Chandra MPIA Convener, Queensland Transport Planning Chapter Planning Institute Australia

Senior transport planner Parsons Brinckerhoff

About PIA Delivering a positive planning culture

• PIA is the national body representing planning and the planning

profession in Australia

• Represents around 5000 members nationally and internationally

• In Queensland, our members cover

• Urban and Land Use Planning

• Economic Planning

• Environmental Planning

• Social Planning

• Transport Planning

Planning reform. Delivering a positive planning culture

• Queensland government reform agenda

• streamline assessment and approval processes

• remove unnecessary red tape

• re-empower local governments to plan for their communities.

• Create Australia’s best planning system

Planning reform. Delivering a positive planning culture

• First steps:

• Single State Planning Policy

• Single State Assessment Referral Agency (SARA)

• Next steps:

• Infrastructure charging reform

• New planning act

• But where does transport infrastructure fit in?

Transport planning. Delivering a positive planning culture

• Good planning defines the what, where, when … and who pays

• Transport infrastructure needs planning just as much as other

infrastructure

• Transport infrastructure can guide development as much as it

reflects it

• Done right, can help achieve social, economic and

environmental outcomes

• Done wrong, can lead to sprawl and congestion

Transport planning. Delivering a positive planning culture

Image source: Matthew Rutledge, Creative Commons 2.0

You get what you plan for

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Disintegrated planning. Delivering a positive planning culture

• A ‘transport’ problem can have a ‘transport’ or a

‘land use’ solution

• Regional plans and IRTPs have been created

together but lower level planning occurs

independently

• Network, area and corridor transport planning

needs to have close relationship with land use

planning

• Don’t wait until DA stage to reintegrate

Where is planning done? Delivering a positive planning culture

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DSDIP

SARA H&PW E&HP

TMR

NR&M

Ops Local govt

What if? Delivering a positive planning culture

• Local and state government transport

plans matched?

• ‘Infrastructure’ charging schemes could

include services instead of infrastructure?

• Transport area and corridor studies were

undertaken by an integrated transport and

land use planning department?

• Planning was seen as facilitating the right

development rather than ‘red tape’?

Value for Money Delivering a positive planning culture

• Delivering the right infrastructure

• At time right time

• For the right purpose

• At the right cost

• This needs good planning not just

good engineering Image source: Payton Chung, Creative Commons 2.0

Planning reform offers… Delivering a positive planning culture

• Better communication

• New plans, rules and regulations

• Organisational change

But most importantly

• Cultural change

More than development assessment. Delivering a positive planning culture

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Planning reform Delivering a positive planning culture

Les Chandra

lchandra@pb.com.au