Development that is State significant development
4.36 Development that is State significant development
For the purposes of this Act, State significant development is development that is declared under this section to be State significant development.
A State environmental planning policy may declare any development, or any class or description of development, to be State significant development.
The Minister may, by a Ministerial planning order, declare specified development on specified land to be State significant development.
The Minister may make a declaration under subsection (3) only if the Minister has obtained and made publicly available advice from the Independent Planning Commission about the State or regional planning significance of the development.
Subsection (3A) does not apply if the development includes residential accommodation.
If the Minister makes a declaration under subsection (3), the Planning Secretary must, as soon as practicable, notify the council for the area in which the specified land is located that the declaration has been made.
A State environmental planning policy that declares State significant development may extend the provisions of the policy relating to that development to State significant development declared under subsection (3).
Note.
See section 5.12(6) and (7) in relation to development that is, but for those provisions, both State significant development and State significant infrastructure.
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