FAQs

Rockhampton Regional Council plans for infrastructure in many ways including via its’ Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP). The LGIP forms part of the Rockhampton Region Planning Scheme 2015 (Part 4 and Schedule 3) and identifies trunk infrastructure that is necessary to service urban development at the desired standards of service in a coordinated, efficient, and financially sustainable manner.   

Trunk infrastructure is ‘higher order’ or ‘shared’ development infrastructure required to ensure the efficient and safe functioning of the infrastructure networks that provide essential services for development. Trunk infrastructure provides service to ‘catchment’ areas with multiple users rather than servicing individual developments.

Trunk infrastructure can include:

• water supply
• sewerage
• transport 
• parks and land for community facilities 
• stormwater (being removed from Council’s LGIP)

The Priority Infrastructure Area (PIA) identifies land that will be serviced by essential trunk infrastructure (such as roads, water, sewerage and parks) to support urban development over the next 10-15 years.  

The priority infrastructure area (PIA) is part of the LGIP and defines an area of properties serviced or intended to be serviced by development infrastructure networks to the desired standards of service. The PIA is limited to properties used or approved for urban land use purposes that will accommodate the forecast 10 to 15 years of growth. The PIA helps Council coordinate, prioritise and sequence infrastructure across all infrastructure networks in the most efficient manner to support development.

As part of this proposed LGIP amendment, Council has reduced the PIA to align with requirements of the Planning Act 2016 and to accommodate no more than 15 years of urban growth. This has been undertaken to ensure that land within the PIA is able to meet desired standards of service (DSS) and to reduce Council’s financial risk of delivering unplanned trunk infrastructure works.

The planning scheme stormwater management code and stormwater management planning scheme policy currently require developers to mitigate their stormwater impacts to pre-development conditions. i.e. no change in peak discharge, frequency, duration, velocity, volume or quality of regular stormwater flows once development has occurred.

This eliminates the need for shared trunk stormwater infrastructure solutions as each development is required to mitigate their own impacts. 

Council is currently experiencing minimal infill development that will influence the current stormwater flow characteristics of existing developed catchments and require new or upgraded trunk infrastructure.

For these reasons, the stormwater trunk network has been removed from the LGIP.