Council's Planning and Regulatory Services (PRS) Department is the lead agency in the Ipswich City Council for:

• managing growth and development in a socially, ecologically and economically sustainable way to meet the needs of the community;
• ensuring the health, environment and safety of the city is protected and enhanced and enhanced through the utilisation of reasonable and appropriate compliance approaches.

The department’s core activities include:

• Preparing and implementing statutory and non-statutory plans, strategies and policies to ensure integrated and sustainable development outcomes for the City as a whole and within specific local areas
• Undertaking spatial analysis and modelling and preparing mapping and graphics to support the work of the department and ongoing development monitoring
• Delivering the Ipswich Heritage Program
• Maintaining an appropriate and efficient regulatory environment for development assessment and plan signing
• Providing planning searches and certificates
• Authorisation and co-ordination of works within road corridors
• The Safe School Parking Program
• Delivering an immunisation program for Schools and through Community Clinics
• Managing the contract for cemeteries and the pound
• Maintaining an appropriate and efficient regulatory environment for community compliance through the reasonable application of Local Laws and legislation
• Registration Rewards Program
• Illegal Dumping and Littering campaign
• PetPep Responsible Pet Ownership Program in preschools/primary schools
• Eat Safe Program
• Online ALERT Food Safety Training
• Licences, permits and registrations for food businesses, environmental activities, commercial use of roads, cat and dog registration, events and public swimming pools
• Structure/development approval compliance management and enforcement

The PRS Department's activities are delivered through its four (4) branches:

• City Design
• Compliance
• Development Planning
• Engineering, Health and Environment

With the support of the Business Support section.

To view the current Planning and Regulatory Services Department structure please click here.