Employment lands
With strong population growth leading to increasing pressure, particularly in Sydney, to rezone existing employment land for housing and other purposes, ensuring the State has an adequate and appropriately located supply of land for employment-generation is one of the Department’s most important land management roles.
Employment lands include the traditional industrial areas for manufacturing, warehousing, construction and repairs; business and technology parks for higher-order jobs; and areas containing a mix of activities associated with transforming, storing, maintaining and repairing materials and goods.
The Metropolitan Plan for Sydney 2036 has identified 15,370 hectares of zoned employment land in the Sydney Region. With estimates that these employment lands will provide jobs for 20 per cent of Sydney’s total workforce, employment lands are essential to Sydney’s future competitiveness. Accommodating job growth could require identification, zoning and development of up to 8,000 hectares of new employment lands for industrial purposes. Some of these employment lands will be provided in the Western Sydney Employment Area.
In February 2011, the NSW Government released the Employment Lands Development Program (ELDP) 2010 Overview Report, which will be used to help implement the Metropolitan Plan. The ELDP report includes a detailed map of Sydney's employment lands.The release of the ELDP report coincided with the announcement of a new Employment Lands Task Force.
11 Subregional Reports have been prepared which provide information on provision of Employment Land at a LGA and subregional level for the Sydney Region for 2010. The release of the ELDP report coincided with the announcement of a new Employment Lands Task Force.
11 Subregional Reports:
The following Reports provide information for the ten metropolitan Sydney Subregions and the Central Coast Region which complements the aggregate information for the Sydney Region contained in the Employment Lands Development Program (ELDP) 2010 Overview Report. That Report is also accessible from this website. The geographic areas covered by the Reports are illustrated below in Map 1
The ELDP is the State Government’s key program for managing the supply of Employment Lands for the Sydney Region and assisting associated infrastructure coordination. For this purpose Employment Lands are currently defined as lands zoned for industrial or similar purposes in planning instruments.
The Subregional Reports provide information in more detail on the subject areas covered in the Overview Report for each subregion and the LGAs within each of these. That information falls under three broad categories for the identified Employment Lands – supply, demand and job characteristics.
As with the Overview Report, the supply data reports on stock levels at January 2010 (the total zoned and its distribution and size, and the quantity and servicing status of undeveloped zoned land). The demand data covers industrial building activity (building approvals) for 2001/02 – 2008/09 and take-up (zoned land which has changed from vacant to occupied) for the calendar years 2008 and 2009. The jobs data reports on the industry and occupation characteristics of employment in Employment Lands precincts at the 2006 Census.
Additional consolidated data for the Sydney Region is contained in the final of this group of Reports.
Further detail on the nature and sources of the information included in these Reports is contained in the Glossary and Data Sources section of the Overview Report.
Map. 1 : Map of Sydney Metropolitan 10 Subregions and the Central Coast Region
Report 1 - Sydney City Subregion
Report 2 - East Subregion
Report 3 - South Subregion
Report 4 - Inner West Subregion
Report 5 - Inner North Subregion
Report 6 - North East Subregion
Report 7 - North Subregion
Report 8 - West Central Subregion
Report 9 - North West Subregion
Report 10 - South West Subregion
Report 11 - Central Coast Subregion
Sydney Region - Zoned Employment Land Stock
Figure 1 Jobs in Employment Lands by Subregion
Each regional strategy also includes initiatives to support well-planned employment lands.