State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021

improving regulatory certainty and efficiency through a consistent planning regime for infrastructure and the provision of services, and

providing greater flexibility in the location of infrastructure and service facilities, and

allowing for the efficient development, redevelopment or disposal of surplus government owned land, and

identifying the environmental assessment category into which different types of infrastructure and services development fall (including identifying certain development of minimal environmental impact as exempt development), and

identifying matters to be considered in the assessment of development adjacent to particular types of infrastructure development, and

providing for consultation with relevant public authorities about certain development during the assessment process or prior to development commencing, and

providing opportunities for infrastructure to demonstrate good design outcomes.