This draft strategy identifies a need for Council to provide an additional supply of appropriately zoned lands, to ensure satisfactory servicing arrangements and to facilitate expansion of existing businesses and provide a basis for attracting new employment opportunities.

AECgroup consultants were commissioned in December 2006, to review Council’s Stage One Industrial Land Strategy undertaken by GHD Consultants in 2003, to complete a demand supply assessment of industrial lands for the PMH area and to identify investigation areas for future additions to industrial land supply. The Project Brief identified the following key objectives:

* Review of existing industrial areas, the nature of their development and the key influences that affected growth;
* projected potential future demand;
* identification and broad assessment of land potentially capable of release for industrial purposes; and
* definition of a strategy for the release and development of the land over a 20-year timeframe.

The Draft Strategy represents a strategic planning framework for industrial land-use planning activity to be undertaken by Council. The Strategy provides a framework for the release and development of industrial lands in the LGA to provide for a 20 year supply of land. It is proposed that there be monitoring of industrial land take-up and a regular 5 yearly review of implementation.

The Executive Summary is attached. See Council for a copy of the full document.