Planning System
The Planning system spans local, state and federal government. Here we have some information on how this system works.
This is the presentation made by Prof Peter Phibbs to a REDWatch Workshop on 13 March 2012 on Planning for Non Planners. The presentation is an abbreviated presentation of a 1 day course Peter provides at UWS. The presentation provides an overview of the planning system and how it operates. The presentation is here as a 638Kb PDF.
The following is an open letter signed by the attached Australian community and faith-based organisations, academics and unions listed below, for your and your Government’s attention. November 2016.
These changes were proposed by changes to Community Participation Plan in June-July 2025. The proposed changes were to reduce public exhibition timeframes from 28 to 14 days for certain residential State Significant Development (SSD) applications Submission which included Homes NSW developments. This is REDWatch's submission on that proposal.
Global Sydney Zones fropm DRaft Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney to 2031 (on exhibition until end May 2013)