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The 2025-26 Budget builds on our historic reforms to deliver more homes for more people, with new construction incentives, strengthened planning and more skilled workers to get the homes people need built faster.

The location and position of buildings on the Waterloo south block will help to minimise the shadow falling on outdoor areas, existing homes and new homes.

Home buyers and businesses can look forward to lower energy bills, with new sustainable building (BASIX) energy standards now in effect.

The department listened to feedback and worked closely with stakeholders to create a simpler and more transparent environmental planning and assessment system.

The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) (EPBC) is the Commonwealth’s central piece of environmental legislation.

In January 2020, the NSW Bushfire Inquiry recommended moving to a risk-based strategic planning approach when planning for bushfires.

Getting your development consent is worth celebrating, but it does not mean that you can start building. Before you can start, you must do four things.

The nature of these effects may require advice or agreement from another NSW Government agency, or between councils. These requirements are known as concurrences and referrals.

A new State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) introducing housing reforms to make it faster and easier to build more affordable housing has come into effect today, following a policy announcement made by the Minns Government in June of this year.

In October 2021, the Department of Planning and Environment exhibited a package of reforms to implement recommendations made by the Productivity Commission, following its review into infrastructure contributions.