New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 3.5

3.5 Making of regional strategic plans

(1) The Planning Secretary may, or must if directed to do so by the Minister, submit a draft regional strategic plan for a region to the Minister.

(2) The Minister may--

(a) make a regional strategic plan in the form in which it is submitted or with the modifications the Minister considers appropriate, or

(b) decide not to make the draft regional strategic plan.

(3) The document entitled Greater Sydney Region Plan--A Metropolis of Three Cities continues to be taken to be the regional strategic plan made under this division for the Six Cities Region, but has effect only in relation to the designated Sydney districts.

(4) As soon as practicable after 1 January 2024, the Planning Secretary must--

(a) review the regional strategic plan referred to in subsection (3), and

(b) submit a draft regional strategic plan that applies to the whole of the Six Cities Region to the Minister.

(5) The Planning Secretary must review a regional strategic plan for the Six Cities Region, other than the regional strategic plan referred to in subsection (3), every 5 years after it is made by the Minister.

(6) The Planning Secretary must review a regional strategic plan for a region outside the Six Cities Region as directed by the Minister.

(7) A failure to comply with a provision of this section does not affect the validity of a regional strategic plan, including the continuing validity of an existing regional strategic plan.