Since 1 January 2020, local governments with a Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) are required to provide additional reporting information about infrastructure planning and charging online, in line with the Planning Regulation 2017. These provisions are intended to improve transparency around the levying and collection of infrastructure charges as well as improving public access to local government infrastructure planning and charging information.
On this page you can find information presented to you in compliance with the Planning Regulation 2017 requirements.
Registers of infrastructure charges are required to made available under the Planning Regulation 2017. Townsville City Council is providing the register in two spreadsheets, for approvals from 1 July 2014. The manual register contains information on those infrastructure charges that have been manually calculated (generally older approvals). The Novoplan register contains information for approvals processed through the Novoplan software.
To view charge notices and calculations, please refer to Find an Application or Find a Property.
To view charge notices and calculations, please use the link provided in column E ("Link to Charge Notice and calculations via ePlanning link"). Details of the calculation methodology and indexing provisions can be found in the relevant Infrastructure Charges Resolution.
An annual report about trunk infrastructure expenditure and infrastructure charges for the previous financial year and forecasts into the near future is required under the Planning Regulation 2017.
Note: Infrastructure charges revenue that is collected in monetary form is not required to be spent in the same suburb or locality. Where trunk infrastructure is provided under a development approval condition, the value of this infrastructure is offset against the infrastructure charge that would otherwise be payable. Infrastructure charges revenue may also be used to pay for regional scale infrastructure.
Annual Reports:
Disclaimer: This report is based on information sourced from the Townsville City Council Asset Capital Plan, Local Government Infrastructure Plan 2019, Property & Rating database, and from internal forecasting based on growth assumptions and other analysis. It is prepared only for the purposes of the trunk infrastructure information and infrastructure charges information reporting requirements of the Planning Act 2016. The information is not guaranteed for accuracy or reliability. |
Council is required to display infrastructure charge notices after 1 January 2020.
A copy of infrastructure charge notices can be viewed by searching the relevant application number or associated property address:
Supporting information relating to the LGIP is required to be made publicly available under reporting provisions of the Planning Regulation 2017.
This includes the following documents with a link for access:
