This page describes the delegations provided to senior planning officers as at July 2020. What follows is a direct quote of an email from the Council Coordinator of Planning Services.
These delegations were modified at the January 2022 Council meeting.
The details of the extent of the delegation set out in my previous email is an extract from the Instrument of Delegation, Authorisation and Appointment for a number of senior positions within Planning Services.
An Instrument of Delegation, Authorisation and Appointment is the means through which the General Manager of Council issues delegations to individual positions across Council under s.64 of the Local Government Act 1993.
In relation to your first question, it is advised that senior Planning Services officers have delegation to determine the following applications.
1. All applications for planning permits for a permitted use or development regardless of whether formal comments have been provided by the Regulated Entity pursuant to Section 56Q of the Water and Sewerage Industry Act 2008.
2. Applications for planning permits for a discretionary use or development only in the following circumstances:.
a. If the time in which the planning authority must grant or refuse a permit will expire prior to the next scheduled meeting of the Glenorchy Planning Authority, and the applicant has refused to grant an extension to that time period.
b. Where use or development is prohibited.
c. Where an application for a permit is made pursuant to the Glenorchy Interim Planning Scheme 2015 for the demolition of a building.
d. Where an application for a permit is made pursuant to the Glenorchy Interim Planning Scheme 2015 and for which no representations are received and regardless of whether formal comments have been provided by the Regulated Entity pursuant to Section 56Q of the Water and Sewerage Industry Act 2008, for the following uses and developments:
i. Single dwellings in the General Residential, Inner Residential, Low Density Residential, Environmental Living, Environmental Management, Rural Resource and Particular Purpose Zone 1-Urban Growth zones;
ii. Ancillary dwellings in the General Residential and Inner Residential zones;
iii. Use and/or development of a heritage place listed in the Historic Heritage Code in the Glenorchy Interim Planning Scheme 2015 or a Place on the Tasmanian Heritage Register (except where the estimated cost of the development exceeds $500,000);
iv. Variations to development standards for all residential developments, except for variations to car parking requirement;
v. Subdivisions creating five lots or less including boundary adjustments;
vi. Discretionary Signs;
vii. Additional vehicle accesses to road frontages where the Development Engineer has recommended approval;
viii. Minor additions, carports and garages for existing Multiple Dwellings provided no new dwellings are created;
ix. Any vegetation removal requiring planning approval under any Code in the Glenorchy Interim Planning Scheme 2015;
x. Single dwellings within the area affected by the Blacksnake Rural Village Area Plan;
xi. Fencing for use and development in the Local Business, General Business, Central Business, Commercial, Light Industrial, Community Purposes and Utilities zones
e. Multiple dwellings to a maximum of four dwellings in the General Residential and Inner Residential zones; and
f. New development or change of use and/or extension of existing buildings where the estimated cost of the development does not exceed $500,000 except where the development is an existing non-conforming use and/or the applicant is disputing a requirement for the provision of a cash in lieu of car parking.
3. Applications to amend planning permits unless the proposed amendment relates to an aspect of the use or development which was the subject or imposed as a result of representations.
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