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News

We keep you updated on the important matters affecting our industry. Read through the latest news and updates from the Institute.

January 30, 2020

Healthy communities supported

The Institute has supported streamlining the proposed mandatory subdivision provisions to a key set of desirable outcomes for new communities.
January 30, 2020

Keeping out of harm’s way

The introduction of the Queensland Government’s Prohibited Donor Scheme, sometimes called Belcarra, brought in many new restrictions on how members of the development industry could participate in democracy.
January 29, 2020

Submissions lodged

The Institute responded to a sleigh-load of policy announcements in the busy lead up to Christmas.
November 25, 2019

New Queensland Development Code

The State Government has introduced, effective from 18 October this year, a new state-wide code to the use of external cladding cited as: Queensland Development Code, Part 2.5 – Use of external cladding.
November 25, 2019

More elders renting by 2031

ABS demographic projections anticipate a 35.1% growth in the population of seniors aged 55-years and over between 2016 and 2031 in Australia. A population of 5,970,825 seniors in 2016 would therefore grow to 8,064,117 in 2031.
November 25, 2019

Exempt clearing not exempt

Recently, the Queensland Court of Appeal decided that despite the vegetation being classified as Category X (under the Vegetation Management Act 1999) and indicated as ‘exempt clearing work’ under the Planning Regulation 2017, clearing was still assessable. The High Court...
November 1, 2019

Modernising apartment living

With local government elections and the State Government election coming up in 2020 members are reminded that following the introduction of new laws last year (Prohibited Donors Scheme), it is illegal for developers to donate to political campaigns.

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