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On Saturday, 1 October 2011, Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 will be repealed, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 will be amended and a new State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011 will come into force
One of the key features of the Planning Act regime for planning and authorising nationally significant infrastructure is the proposed series of National Policy Statements, which set out government policy on the need for infrastructure, and the impacts that promoters should address in their applications and that the Infrastructure Planning Commission should take into account when examining them
It is hard to escape the fact that our planning system is in the throes of a dramatic reform, given that these proposed reforms have managed to make front page news and been at the centre of many recent debates during the party conference season
