Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands

Overview

What’s this about?

Industrial lands support trade, jobs, and essential services, and play a key role in housing delivery, manufacturing, and the energy transition.

Some areas of NSW are facing a shortfall in industrial land, leading to rising costs, low vacancy rates, and businesses relocating interstate. This shortfall could affect the delivery of key NSW Government priorities, including delivering homes under the National Housing Accord, advancing the clean energy transformation, and supporting the growth of local manufacturing.

The draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands responds to feedback from industry, councils, and stakeholders and will:

• establish a consistent, evidence-based framework for planning and protecting industrial lands across NSW
• introduce a framework for industrial lands to be categorised as state, regionally and locally significant industrial lands based on their spatial contribution to economic activity and their significance in a network of industrial lands
• support better planning for new and intensified industrial areas. 

You can read the Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands to help inform your response.

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