Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP)

Council’s Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) is an important part of our Planning Scheme. It identifies and prioritises the trunk (higher order) infrastructure needed to support current and future urban development within the Priority Infrastructure Area (PIA).

What is the Priority Infrastructure Area (PIA)?

The PIA is a defined area of suitable land within the region where adequate infrastructure currently exists or can be more efficiently provided to accommodate forecast population and employment growth for the next 10 to 15 years.

What is trunk infrastructure?

Trunk infrastructure provides vital services to our communities. These are:

  • the green spaces, parks and sporting fields in which we play and relax
  • the roads that connect our neighbourhoods to the major State Government-managed roads
  • the pathways on which we cycle and walk
  • the stormwater systems that manage the impact of development on the health of our floodplains and waterways.

The LGIP focuses on trunk infrastructure across three networks:

  • public parks and land for community facilities
  • transport (roads and active)
  • stormwater (quality and quantity).

Current LGIP

Infrastructure planning must be kept current so services and facilities can be provided to respond to community needs, growth and changing demand across the region. Council’s LGIP is reviewed and amended at regular intervals. Community consultation is an important part of this review process.

Council’s LGIP was last updated in December 2021. You can read more about this amendment on Council’s website.

Having a current LGIP enables Council to:

  • plan and provide trunk infrastructure in an efficient and orderly manner to support desirable lifestyles for our communities
  • integrate our infrastructure planning and land use planning
  • inform our capital works program and long-term financial planning
  • transparently manage our region’s growth in a sustainable way over the longer-term
  • equitably levy infrastructure charges on new development that can be used to fund trunk infrastructure.

Not every LGIP infrastructure item can be delivered immediately. Council must budget for projects to happen at the right time, when their delivery best responds to demand. Council does this by carefully monitoring development and demand for infrastructure across the region in both new and existing areas.

If Council’s assumptions about growth and demand change, we may bring forward, delay or cancel an LGIP infrastructure item. We may also replace an item with alternative infrastructure that fulfils the same function. This means not all infrastructure items identified in the LGIP will be delivered within the indicated timeframes.

The current Moreton Bay Regional Council Planning Scheme including the LGIP can be viewed on Council's website.

Land nominations for LGIP infrastructure items

The LGIP nominates the location and area of land needed for future trunk infrastructure.

For some future infrastructure items, the land requirements can be specifically identified, while for others it is indicative only. Indicative nominations occur where the planning for and design of an item has not reached a point where the land requirements can be specifically identified.

Council recognises the importance of giving our communities, landowners and developers certainty. So, we work to refine indicative nominations as soon as can be reasonably achieved. This is done through a range of ways including:

  • Council’s comprehensive site selection process
  • conditioning infrastructure provision as part of development assessment processes
  • updating the LGIP.

The statutory process to amend the LGIP can take some time. Updates about the land requirements for trunk infrastructure items will be posted on Council's website where appropriate, to provide certainty, as soon as possible, to landowners affected by indicative LGIP land nominations.

Securing land required for trunk infrastructure

The land required for trunk infrastructure may be already owned by Council or may be land that Council intends to acquire in the future when demand triggers the delivery of that infrastructure item. Council decides when required land will be acquired based on:

  • anticipated timeframe for delivery of the infrastructure item
  • current and emerging demand for the infrastructure
  • Council’s budget and long-term financial planning
  • other special circumstances that may be affecting specific land parcels.

Council is committed to fair and reasonable land acquisition negotiations with landowners when the decision is made to purchase or acquire land for the purposes of delivering trunk infrastructure. Each property acquisition is done on a case-by-case basis that considers the unique circumstance of the landowners and current market valuations. 

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