Councils now reporting on Infrastructure Charges
Queensland councils are now required to publish the amount of Infrastructure Charges they collect and where it’s being spent.
Queensland councils are now required to publish the amount of Infrastructure Charges they collect and where it’s being spent.
These councils have registers available online:
- Brisbane City Council
- Cairns Regional Council
- Fraser Coast Regional Council
- Gladstone Regional Council
- City of Gold Coast
- City of Ipswich
- Logan City Council
- Mackay Regional Council
- Moreton Bay Regional Council
- Redland City Council
- Rockhampton Regional Council
- Sunshine Coast Council
- Toowoomba Regional Council
- Townsville City Council
- Whitsunday Regional Council
The reporting requirements will expand in the future. More detail on the local government infrastructure planning and charging framework, including reforms to improve transparency can be found on the State Government’s website.
The Institute first called for transparency of Infrastructure Charges paid by developers in September 2017 following on from insights gained through the work of our Research Foundation. The government’s implementation of this initiative highlights the important work conducted by the Industry Leaders Research Group to understand the community’s views on development and population growth challenges.
Our research found the community does not realise these charges are collected, or how they are spent. As a result they feel there is little to offset population growth pressures. The previous lack of publicly available information served to undermine genuine engagement with the community on these development issues.
This change to reporting is a significant and positive outcome that has the potential to change the conversation you have when engaging with the community around development and increase the community’s knowledge of the role you play as community builders.
Infrastructure contributions are among the largest revenue sources for local governments. For the development industry, our contribution to the provision of new infrastructure that maintains and improves the liveability of communities is now available for all to see. It also brings to light the efforts of local government in providing infrastructure.
If members have any queries please contact Manager of Policy, Martin Zaltron.