State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021

Development may be carried out on unzoned land only with development consent.

Before granting development consent, the consent authority—

must consider whether the development will impact on adjoining zoned land and, if so, consider the objectives for development in the zones of the adjoining land, and

must be satisfied that the development is appropriate and is compatible with permissible land uses in any such adjoining land.

Despite subsection (1), development for the following purposes may be carried out by or on behalf of a public authority on unzoned land without development consent—

maintenance dredging,

capital dredging,

environmental management works associated with port facilities or wharf and boating facilities,

navigation and emergency response facilities,

port facilities, if the development is directly related to an existing port facility.