Meetings and agendas

Papers

All papers relating to applications for decision by the SCAP at the hearing (excluding legal opinion and commercially confidential information, and recommendations relating to Crown Development or mining proposals) are available online the Wednesday prior to the hearing.

Attendance at SCAP hearings

The primary objective for protocols is to maintain an environment that enables all parties to respectfully exchange information to assist SCAP Members to understand the issues and assess the application against the Planning and Design Code policies.

Members of the public and media are welcome to attend to observe development assessment applications being heard. To attend a SCAP hearing an attendee must register with the SCAP Secretariat no later than 3:00pm the Monday prior to the scheduled hearing date, via DHUD.SCAPSecretary@sa.gov.au.

To assist the panel and ensure the hearings progress smoothly, all attendees are asked to act respectfully during proceedings and adhere to the following attendance requirements:

• enter the room quietly at the beginning of the agenda item
• quietly proceed to the public gallery seating as directed by the SCAP Secretariat
• turn off mobile phones and any other electronic device (i.e. laptops and tablets)
• cameras and video equipment are not permitted in the meeting room as recording SCAP hearings is not permitted
• refrain from talking and eating during the meeting
• to limit disruptions, late attendees will not be permitted to enter the meeting room if they arrive more than 5 minutes after the scheduled commencement time of the agenda item.

In the event that an attendee becomes disruptive or behaves inappropriately:

• the Presiding Member will pause the hearing and ask the person to cease the behaviour immediately and/or request the person leave the meeting room
• if a person continues to disrupt the hearing the Presiding Member will adjourn the hearing and ask SCAP Members to vacate the meeting room. Security will remove the disruptive person from the meeting room and/or building, following which the hearing can resume
• if, in the opinion of the Presiding Member or the most senior staff member present, the behaviour warrants further intervention, the police will be contacted
• if it is suspected that there may be disruptive behaviour at a SCAP hearing, as a precaution the SCAP Secretariat may inform security and the police of the matter, prior to the commencement of the hearing.

On conclusion of the SCAP hearing, all attendees will be asked to leave the meeting room to allow SCAP Members to deliberate and make a decision on the development application.

This decision will be communicated via the minutes of the meeting published on the SCAP website the day following the hearing.