Land Management Code amendments

Overview

What’s this about?

A statutory review of the native vegetation provisions of the Local Land Services Act 2013 was completed in 2023. 

In 2024, the NSW Government released the NSW plan for nature. its response to the statutory reviews of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the native vegetation provisions of the Local Land Services Act 2013.    

The NSW Plan for Nature commits to implementing all 13 recommendations from the Local Land Services Act statutory review, with two variations.  

It also committed to adopting additional actions to strengthen environmental protections in the Land Management Framework, including making amendments to the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018 (the Code).   

Have your say

This consultation is now closed. 

View the public submissions received.

Have your say by 11:59pm Friday 1 August 2025.

There are 2 ways to submit your feedback.

A discussion paper has been prepared to help provide feedback on the proposed changes to the Code.  

The NSW Government encourages the community, landholders and other interested stakeholders to make a submission based on the proposed changes outlined in the discussion paper.  

Submissions will inform the final amendments to the Code.

Note: submissions may be made public on the Local Land Services website unless clearly marked ‘confidential’.  

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