Overview
The Department of Planning and Infrastructure was created in March 2011 as a public sector division in the NSW Government. From 2005 to 2011, the department was known as the Department of Planning.
In March 2011, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Central Coast Regional Development Corporation, Office of Strategic Lands, Hunter Development Corporation and Luna Park Reserve Trust became attached to the department. The department's former heritage branch moved to the Office of Environment and Heritage.
The department's divisions focus on key planning activities, including land release, urban renewal and major project assessment. Another division focuses on corporate governance and policy development.
Planning Board
- Director General, Sam Haddad
- Deputy Director General, Strategies and Land Release, Ian Reynolds
- Deputy Director General, Development Assessment and Systems Performance, Richard Pearson
- Executive Director, Corporate Governance & Policy, Donna Rygate
- Executive Director, Assessment Systems General Counsel, Marcus Ray
Executive team
The executive team includes board members as well as:
- Executive Director, Planning Operations, Neil McGaffin
- Executive Director, Major Projects Assessment, Chris Wilson
- Executive Director, Strategy & Infrastructure Planning, Andrew Jackson
- Executive Director, Land Release (Planning & Delivery), Robert Black
- Director, Community & Stakeholder Engagement, Liam McKay
- Executive Director, Urban Renewal and Major Sites, Giovanni Cirillo
The Department’s structure diagram is available here 
Priorities
The executive team has a focus on the following priorities:
- Promoting and facilitating sustainable growth
- Supporting affordable and appropriately-serviced housing and employment land
- Assessing major projects and infrastructure in a timely and efficient way, while ensuring appropriate planning outcomes
- Planning to help mitigate against climate change
- Improving service delivery to our communities and our stakeholders
- Implementing reforms to create a more efficient, transparent and accountable planning system and importantly, the communication of these reforms.
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