Under Queensland's planning legislation, Council may require developers to contribute to the provision of trunk infrastructure identified in the Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP). The video explains how this works.
Funding new local infrastructure video transcript
Trunk infrastructure is higher order infrastructure that supports large areas or catchments. It includes things like water or sewerage treatment facilities, parks and main roads.
Trunk infrastructure is classified into these networks:
- water supply
- sewer
- stormwater
- movement (transport – road and cycle)
- parks
- land for community facilities such as libraries or sports fields.
Non-trunk infrastructure is internal to a development and may connect a development to an external infrastructure network.
A Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP) identifies the trunk infrastructure necessary to service urban development at the desired standard of service (DSS). To understand the future infrastructure needs of our community, we forecast future housing and employment growth and compare it with actual development. This helps to make sure infrastructure is planned and delivered in the right place at the right time. To learn more about growth in Logan, please see our City Pulse.
The LGIP must be financially sustainable. We must provide evidence that the infrastructure included in the Plan can be funded.
Our LGIP is part of our planning scheme and can be accessed using these links:
We use the LGIP when we assess development applications. We impose conditions for necessary trunk infrastructure and identify whether extra payments are needed.
The LGIP covers a planning period of 2020 to 2036. It presents the establishment cost of infrastructure items in current cost terms, with the base date nominated as 30 June 2020 under the Logan Planning Scheme – Part 4.
You can find documentation about the preparation of the LGIP in our additional material folder. This includes:
- development assumptions
- future trunk infrastructure network documents
- schedule of works models
- material that relates to asset management and financial aspects of the LGIP.
We consider feedback and improvement opportunities for the LGIP as part of amendments to the planning scheme. Check the Logan Planning Scheme for more information about proposed and adopted amendments.
Infrastructure charges for developments in Logan are calculated according to the Logan Charges Resolution. We use the version of the Resolution which applies at the date the development application is decided (or enters the decision stage), or the building work approval documents are lodged with Council.
You can download our current Logan charges resolution and find more information about historic charges resolutions and their dates of effect in our Register of infrastructure charges resolutions and Summary of changes - Logan charges resolution.
The current version commenced on 6 March 2023 (Logan Charges Resolution (No.11) 2023). To learn more about the current resolution, please see our Notice of changes fact sheet.
The Logan Charges Resolution is made in line with the Planning Act 2016 which sets out requirements such as the maximum infrastructure charges for different types of residential and non-residential development. The charges resolution clarifies our policy relating to matters like:
- the criteria applied to decide whether development infrastructure is classed as trunk infrastructure (in trunk infrastructure conversion applications)
- the method applied for working out the establishment cost of trunk infrastructure for a refund or offset where an applicant needs to provide land or works for trunk infrastructure
- whether an offset or refund applies and, if so, the details and timing of the offset and refund.
What do infrastructure charges apply to?
Infrastructure charges apply to development that creates extra demand on trunk infrastructure networks. This may include a subdivision, material change of use of existing premises or building work. An infrastructure charges notice (ICN) is usually issued with a development permit to the applicant and the property owner. The infrastructure charges are attached to the premises.
Estimate of infrastructure charges
To get an estimate of the infrastructure charges that may apply to a proposed development on a property in Logan you can:
Payment of infrastructure charges
The charges must be paid when Council issues an invoice. This happens when the trigger for payment defined in the Planning Act 2016 is reached, which will be stated on the Infrastructure Charges Notice and may be:
- before approval of the survey plan for a subdivision; or
- when the final inspection certificate for the building work, or the certificate of occupancy for the building, is given; or
- when the final Compliance Certificate under the Plumbing and Drainage Act 2018 is issued or the certificate of occupancy for the building is issued or the change of use happens, for a material change of use; or
- the day stated in the infrastructure charges notice.
To see the infrastructure charges that Council collects and information about infrastructure delivered, you can download our infrastructure reports set out in the table below.
Please see our infrastructure charging forms and fact sheets folder where you will find information and application forms for things like:
- nominating a responsible entity for payment of infrastructure charges
- a request to calculate or adjust the establishment cost of infrastructure
- a conversion application (non-trunk infrastructure to trunk infrastructure)
- the deferral of infrastructure charges for a range of scenarios including:
- 3.5-5 star hotels,
- temporary accommodation,
- tourist parks and nature-based tourism,
- not-for-profit charitable organisations and
- the Springwood and Beenleigh economic development zones
- a notice of market cost for trunk infrastructure
- a notice of completed trunk infrastructure
- a notice of dispute resolution.
For more information about:
You can also contact our team for any enquiries about infrastructure charges or planning by email icugeneral@logan.qld.gov.au or phone 07 3412 4247.
Logan is one of the fastest growing cities in South East Queensland. The Priority Infrastructure Area (PIA) is the area we have prioritised, and can afford to fund, for delivery of trunk infrastructure to service this growth. The PIA is shown in the maps in our Local Government Infrastructure Plan (LGIP), which is Part 4 and Schedule 3 of our local planning scheme.
It costs more to deliver infrastructure outside the PIA because the necessary planning has not been completed and these areas are generally not well connected to our existing networks (roads, water, sewer, drainage etc.). We need developers to help deliver and fund the necessary trunk infrastructure to service the new communities emerging in these areas.
Extra payment condition
On 11 September 2024 Council decided to apply, where appropriate, an extra payment condition to developments outside the PIA which make new trunk infrastructure necessary. That infrastructure (like major roads, intersections, water, sewer, or drainage infrastructure) may not currently be planned and funded in our LGIP or may need to be delivered earlier than planned because of the development.
Applicable development
The extra payment condition may apply to applications which are properly made on or after 16 September 2024.
Whether or not an extra payment condition will apply depends on whether the proposed development needs trunk infrastructure which is not planned in our LGIP. This is worked out during our assessment of the development application.
The extra payment does not apply to:
- infrastructure identified in the LGIP (where appropriate this will be conditioned as necessary trunk infrastructure under section 128 of the Planning Act 2016)
- development in the Priority Development Areas of Yarrabilba and Greater Flagstone, which are managed by the Queensland Government
- applications which do not require trunk infrastructure (e.g. for houses)
- operational works applications.
Payment amount
The Planning Act 2016 allows local governments to impose this condition and states, in section 133, what can be included. All trunk infrastructure made necessary by the development, and not identified in the LGIP, will be included, as well as the infrastructure needed to service the rest of the area (if the development is located in the Emerging Community zone).
The amount will be indexed using the 3 year average Producer Price Index (PPI) for the period. The period starts on the day the decision notice for the development application is given and ends on the day the amount is paid.
The amount is paid at the time specified in section 131 of the Planning Act 2016.
Developer options
Developers can choose to deliver the necessary infrastructure instead of paying the extra payment amount. We will enter into an infrastructure agreement to specify the infrastructure charges payable and the trunk infrastructure that needs to be delivered instead of paying the extra amount.
Infrastructure charges discount
For a period of 3 years, until 15 September 2027, we will offer a discount to the infrastructure charges where an extra payment condition applies. This may be subject to review.
An infrastructure agreement will be needed to receive the discount. No cross-crediting will be applied when calculating the discount, as it is not an offset as provided for in the Planning Act 2016.
The infrastructure charges discount will be the lower amount of:
- the extra payment amount for an infrastructure network, or
- the portion of the infrastructure charges according to the network split, indicated below, for the network where the extra payment condition applies (e.g. if a road is to be delivered, it will be the split for the road network).
The network splits are identified in the table below.
| Trunk infrastructure network |
Discount |
| Movement (roads) |
37 percent |
| Water supply |
12 percent |
| Sewerage |
33 percent |
| Stormwater |
4 percent |
| Parks |
12 percent |
| Land for community facilities |
2 percent |
More information
For further information about the extra payment condition please: