The purpose of this policy is:

• to promote the efficient and effective provision of public infrastructure and facilities to meet the demands arising from new growth and development;

• to ensure that development contributions are necessary and relevant to the development to be permitted and are charged equitably among those benefiting from the infrastructure and facilities to be provided;

• to ensure consistency and transparency in the system for apportioning, collecting and spending development contributions;

• to ensure the social well-being of communities arising from, or affected by, development.