With the pressure to bring housing supply to market, achieve better infrastructure sequencing and stimulate economic development, there is a timely spotlight on “land banking” and sitting on development approvals without enacting them.
Queensland planning legislation has long contained a ‘use it or lose it’ regime that sees an approval lapse if the requisite action hasn’t happened within the currency period. Over the years this regime has become more complicated to navigate, with differences in default currency periods under different Acts, roll-forward-by-related-approvals provisions in previous legislation, the operation of completion periods and automatic Ministerial extensions for the COVID-19 applicable events.
Our team has been at the forefront in dealing with lapsing of development approvals. In this five-part series Dead or alive, extended or revived? Lapsing of development approvals we share our insight on the following topics.
You can download a PDF version of each Insight by clicking on the available links.
- Priority development area approval currency periods
- Development approval currency periods under the Planning Act 2016
- Development approval completion periods under the Planning Act 2016
- Pre-Integrated Planning Act 1997 approvals currency periods
- Options for approvals that are about to lapse or have lapsed
Contact our Planning and Environment experts for assistance regarding managing development approval currency and completion period implications.
