Planning, Transport and Infrastructure Department

In reply to Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (22 July 2015). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. J.R. RAU (Enfield—Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice Reform, Minister for Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Child Protection Reform, Minister for the Public Sector, Minister for Consumer and Business Services, Minister for the City of Adelaide): I have been provided the following advice:

Schedule 10 Clause (20) of the Development Regulations 2008 provides that the State Coordinator-General may in certain circumstances appoint the Development Assessment Commission as the relevant authority for a development proposal.

The regulation clearly prescribed that each project be in excess of $3 million and this test has been met for all determinations made by the State Coordinator-General.

On occasion, the State Coordinator-General has been approached regarding multiple development sites. Each individual proposal however has comprised works in excess of $3 million. This approach has been on the basis of a proponent seeking one consistent planning entity to consider their portfolio of investment proposals, located in numerous local government areas across the state.