State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021 (2021-723) (NSW)

State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021

Chapter 1 Preliminary

1.1 Name of Policy This Policy is State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry and Employment) 2021.

1.2 Commencement This Policy commences on 1 March 2022 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

1.3 Definitions In this Policy— the Act means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

Note— The Act and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Policy.

1.4 Transferred provisions The Interpretation Act 1987, section 30A is taken to apply to the provisions transferred to this Policy on the commencement of this Policy in the same way as it applies to provisions transferred from a statutory rule to another statutory rule.

Note— The Interpretation Act 1987, section 30A provides— (a) the transfer of a provision does not affect the operation or meaning of the provision, and (b) a transferred provision is to be construed as if it had not been transferred.

Chapter 2 Western Sydney employment area

Part 2.1 Preliminary

2.1 Aims of Chapter (1) This Chapter aims to protect and enhance the land to which this Chapter applies (the Western Sydney Employment Area) for employment purposes. (2) The particular aims of this Chapter are as follows— (a) to promote economic development and the creation of employment in the Western Sydney Employment Area by providing for development including major warehousing, distribution, freight transport, industrial, high technology and research facilities, (b) to provide for the co-ordinated planning and development of land in the Western Sydney Employment Area, (c) to rezone land for employment, environmental conservation or recreation purposes, (d) to improve certainty and regulatory efficiency by providing a consistent planning regime for future development and infrastructure provision in the Western Sydney Employment Area, (e) to ensure that development occurs in a logical, environmentally sensitive and cost-effective manner and only after a development control plan (including specific development controls) has been prepared for the land concerned, (f) to conserve and rehabilitate areas that have a high biodiversity or heritage or cultural value, in particular areas of remnant vegetation.