South West Growth Area proposals must follow the December 2022 Structure Plan.
Applies to: Land within the South West Growth Area in the Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool LGAsWhen preparing a planning proposal for land in the South West Growth Area, the authority must ensure it is consistent with the Structure Plan and Guide dated December 2022, approved by the Minister. This ensures development in the growth area follows the planned structure.
Direction 1.21 is a place-based planning direction that ties any rezoning or planning changes in the South West Growth Area (also called the South West Growth Centre) back to a single strategic blueprint: the Structure Plan and Guide approved by the Minister for Planning and published by the Department of Planning and Environment in December 2022. In plain terms, when a council or other planning proposal authority wants to change what can be built or how land can be used within this growth area, the proposed changes must line up with that endorsed plan. The Structure Plan and Guide sets the objectives, planning principles and priorities for how this large release area is meant to develop.
A planning proposal authority (typically the relevant council, or another body preparing a planning proposal) that prepares a planning proposal for land within the South West Growth Area in the Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool local government areas.
It is triggered when a planning proposal authority prepares a planning proposal for land in the Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool LGAs that applies to land within the South West Growth Area. It commenced on 1 January 2023.
A planning proposal may be inconsistent only if the planning proposal authority satisfies the Planning Secretary (or their nominee) that the inconsistent provisions are of minor significance, and that the proposal achieves the overall intent of the Structure Plan and Guide and does not undermine its objectives, planning principles and priorities.
The direction operates by reference to the South West Growth Area Structure Plan and Guide dated December 2022, approved by the Minister for Planning and published on the Department of Planning and Environment website.
A planning proposal must be consistent with the Structure Plan and Guide approved by the Minister for Planning and published in December 2022 on the Department of Planning and Environment website.
Any proposal must not undermine the objectives, planning principles and priorities set for the South West Growth Area in the Structure Plan and Guide.
This direction does not apply to Kiama. It is confined to land within the South West Growth Area in the Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool LGAs, which is in south-western Sydney and does not include the Kiama LGA. A Kiama planning proposal would never trigger this direction.
1.21 Implementation of South West Growth Area Structure Plan Objectives The objective of this direction is to ensure that development within the South West Growth Area (also referred to as the South West Growth Centre) is consistent with Structure Plan and Guide dated December 2022. Application This direction applies to when a planning proposal authority prepares a planning proposal for land in the Camden, Campbelltown and Liverpool local government areas that applies to land within the South West Growth Area. Direction 1.21 (1) A planning proposal authority must ensure that a planning proposal is consistent with the Structure Plan and Guide approved by the Minister for Planning and as published in December 2022 on the website of the Department of Planning and Environment. Consistency A planning proposal may be inconsistent with this direction only if the planni ng proposal authority can satisfy the Planning Secretary (or their nominee), that: (a) the provisions of the planning proposal that are inconsistent are of minor significance, and (b) the planning proposal achieves the overall intent of the Structure Plan and Guide and does not undermine the achievement of its objectives, planning principles and priorities for the South West Growth Area. Issued to commence 1 January 2023
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