The New South Wales Land Use Planning System
iPlan - Planning information and services for New South Wales
The NSW planning system - an overview (iPlan)
How plans are made in NSW (iPlan)
Planning Resources (NSW - iPlan)
Online access to a large number of land use planning documents
Key facts on the NSW planning system (DIPNR)
Key facts that are motivating reforms, and key aspects of the planned simplification
Improving the NSW planning system (DIPNR)
Short overview of the reforms
Improving the NSW planning system (DIPNR, 2004)
Paper outlining the reforms
NSW Government's response to the recommendations from the planning reviews (DIPNR, 2004)
What planning reform means for local government
Funding local infrastructure - section 94 contributions (DIPNR)
Integrating Land Use Planning and Environmental Management
Methods
Integrating Local Land Use Planning & Regional Catchment Planning
Recommendations developed for local government in Victoria (a project of the Municipal Association of Victoria):
- their model framework for land use plans
- review of the adequacy of some existing land use plans
- recommendations for regional catchment strategies
- review of the adequacy of some regional catchment strategies
Examples
Water Cycle
Integrating Wetlands into NRM Regional Planning and Implementation Process
Georges River Floodplain Risk Management Study & Plan (pdf)
An example of how to amend existing planning instruments to incorporate catchment management principles.
Biodiversity
Integration of Biodiversity Conservation in Regional Planning
Biodiversity Guide for Local Government
This guide explains the importance of biodiversity and how it can be incorporated into local government planning (Local Government and Shires Association)
Community Engagement
Five step engagement planning cycle
A guide to designing, organising, implementing and reviewing plans and development assessment programs in NSW. It also includes information on engaging the community (iPlan)
Community engagement techniques and tools (NSW - iPlan)
Opportunities for community engagement (NSW - iPlan)
When community engagement is required (minimum statutory requirements inNSW land use planning) (NSW - iPlan)
Community Engagement: Stories and Resources (iPlan - NSW)
Directory to examples of best practice.
We suggest taking time to see how your current planning process sits with you ... in what respects it does and does not make sense, to what extent what is really at stake is on the table, and to what extent simply implicit in the process so far ...
This is a practical application of 'listening to ourselves' - allowing our tacit, implicit, knowledge ... our 'feel' for what is going on to inform what we do ... As Polanyi, Gendlin and others have underlined, we each know more than it is easy to say.
For more on how to 'use gut feel skillfully', see Listening to ourselves.
Have you thought your way into the ecosystem management context for your land use plan? |
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Making land use plans is a way we manage change in regions and communities. Perhaps a proactive, entrepreneurial approach to catalysing change would help? |
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When our planning is innovative, the planning process itself can be used to build our organisations' and communities' capacities. Perhaps you could use your plan making to develop your stakeholders' capacities? |
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Have you thought about how the effects of your land use plans can be evaluated? For local communities, the outcomes are what matter ... |
