Planning for Non-Planners

The Property Council’s third ‘Planning for Non-Planners’ professional development workshop, run by Urbis, was held on World Town Planning Day – Tuesday 8 November.

For the third time the workshop was sold out, with strong interest in an opportunity to better understand Queensland’s land-use planning system and its implications for urban development.

Overcoming the knowledge gap about our State’s complex planning framework is one of the challenges facing the industry, particularly given the recent pace of reform. Outside of the highly specialised planning professionals within councils and the property industry, comprehension of how the various planning instruments, schemes and policies work is not widespread.

The Planning for Non-Planners workshops have gone beyond the theoretical concepts behind our planning system, such as performance-based planning and our planning hierarchy, to explore how the system works in practice.

The Property Council sincerely thanks Urbis team members Ben Slack, Ashley Lane, Stephanie Wyeth, Sophie Lam, Ben Weaver and Cameron Stanley for their contributions to the workshops.

Photos from the workshop can be found here.

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