IPART has released a Draft Report on the Review of The Hills Shire Council’s revised Contributions Plan No. 15 – Box Hill Precinct (2025).
The Hills Shire Council proposes a residential contribution rate of $77,360 for an average dwelling in the Killarney Chain of Ponds sub-precinct and $64,684 in the Second Ponds Creek sub-precinct. The proposed contribution rates have increased around 14% since the plan was previously reviewed and are around the average of the contribution rates in plans that the Tribunal has recently assessed.
The plan commenced in 2014 and is expected to be completed by 2037. The Hills Shire Council has revised the total cost of the plan to be about $1.14 billion over this time years to provide infrastructure to service the Box Hill Precinct. The council will use the contributions it collects to fund open space, stormwater management, and transport infrastructure, as well as land acquisitions needed to support development in the precinct.
IPART found that that the required community liaison has been undertaken and that the infrastructure in the plan is essential and reasonable. Our draft decision is that the revised contributions plan meets the legislative requirements.
We published a Draft Report on our assessment findings. We welcome submissions from any interested parties until 18 June 2025.
We will provide our final assessment and recommendations to the Minister. The Minister, or their nominee, will advise the council on any changes it needs to make prior to adopting the plan. The council will then be entitled to charge the applicable contribution rates in the Box Hill Precinct.