The City of Glen Eira, a Melbourne municipality with a population of around 123,000 required the preparation of a municipal-wide Development Contributions Plan (DCP) for drainage works and related open space.
SGS was able to provide a DCP using the 'share of usage' cost apportionment method developed by SGS, which is now the State Government endorsed method (following its 2002 review of development contributions).
The resulting DCP has now become a benchmark - being one of the first to be incorporated into a Planning Scheme in Victoria since the 1995 amendments to the Planning & Environment Act.