Under s 639(1) of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (Qld), an infrastructure charge levied by a local government is, for the purposes of recovery, deemed to be rates, with the consequence that the registered proprietor of the land is liable for the charge under the Local Government Act rating regime, even where the proprietor was not the applicant for the development permit. A landowner who consents to a third party's development application should be aware that unpaid infrastructure charges may be recovered from the landowner as rates. The owner's consent to the development application amounts to consent to a statutory process that may result in infrastructure-related obligations binding the land.
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