E-Petition

Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House the failure of the government’s planning department to deliver on its mandate requiring it to provide “housing choice, diversity and affordability” Planning Act 2016 section 5f. Housing options are limited by planning regulations which limit the number of dwellings per lot and specify a 100 ha minimum lot size for subdivisions in the Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area. These regulations are clearly designed to prevent more citizens exercising their “freedom to choose where they live” and own property”; entitlements under the Human Rights Act 2019. Furthermore, the planning department refuses to justify these limitations in accordance with section 13 of the Act, and therefore its behaviour is potentially unlawful – sections 19, 24, 58 and 108.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to do all in its power to remove the regulations limiting the number of dwellings and/or the 100 ha limit on subdivisions in the Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area. Building and subdivision should be assessed on a case-by-case basis depending upon land use, environmental value and according to section 13 - Human rights may be limited.