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Elevate your strategic planning skills to help shape the future of your community
This full‑day training program equips councillors with the knowledge, strategic mindset, and practical tools needed to make informed, community‑focused decisions within Queensland’s planning system.
Through interactive presentations, group discussions, and hands‑on activities, participants explore how strategic planning and development assessment shape the long‑term liveability, resilience, and prosperity of their communities.
Topics include:
- Welcome and course objectives
- Strategic planning foundations
- Balancing competing priorities
- Understanding the Queensland Planning Framework
- Planning scheme
- Amending a planning scheme – opportunities & challenges
- Approval processes
- Other approval frameworks
- Development assessment
- Councillor responsibilities in Development Assessment
- Evaluating development applications
- Q&A session
Our Specialist Planning Facilitators: Nikki Huddy & Kelly Reaston
Nikki and Kelly lead Peak’s suite of planning programs, including our Planning for Councillors workshop and our LGA50120 Diploma of Local Government (Planning) RTO: 30003. As an award-winning planner and trainer, Nikki is widely respected for her commitment to planning for the Queensland sector. Kelly, who has over 20 years’ planning experience, has a passion for nurturing professional pathways to retain talent in regions. Both facilitators firmly believe that the best results are achieved when we collaborate.