Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

PLANNING ACT - SECT 69

    (1)     A contribution plan may specify that the owner of land on which a development of a type specified in the plan occurs will be required to contribute towards the provision of infrastructure or public car parking, as the case may be, in accordance with the plan.

    (2)     A contribution plan that is made by a service authority that is a local authority applies only to land within the local authority's council area.

    (3)     A contribution plan relates to the policy area specified in the plan, being land that can appropriately be treated as a discrete area for the provision of infrastructure or public car parking of the type specified in the plan because of:

        (a)     the location of the land;

        (b)     land uses in the area of land or other common identifiable characteristics;

        (c)     the anticipated future development of the area of land; and

        (d)     the infrastructure or public car parking that is or will be required on the area of land.

    (4)     A contribution plan is to contain:

        (a)     a description of the infrastructure or public car parking that is or will be required in the policy area specified in the plan;

        (b)     a statement of the intended order in which works relating to the development of the infrastructure or public car parking are to occur;

        (c)     an estimate of, and the method for calculating, the capital cost of works relating to each type of infrastructure or each public car park;

        (d)     in relation to each type of infrastructure for which a contribution is required – a formula for calculating the contribution, determined having regard to prescribed types of information or estimations and descriptions or other information referred to in this section;

        (e)     in relation to public car parking – a formula for calculating the contribution, determined having regard to:

            (i)     the value of the land necessary for an off-street car park in the policy area; and

            (ii)     the estimated cost of construction of public car parking spaces on that land, using the most appropriate or cost effective form of construction, whether ground level or multi-level and having regard to all the circumstances in the policy area; and

        (f)     other prescribed information.

    (5)     A formula referred to in subsection (4)(d) may relate to the following:

        (a)     the intensity of a development;

        (b)     the anticipated increased usage of proposed infrastructure as a consequence of a development of a particular type;

        (c)     other factors specified in the contribution plan.