Dark sky
We have teamed up with Siding Spring Observatory and Dubbo School of Distant Education to help protect the dark sky night from light pollution.
Dark Sky Planning Guideline
We created the Dark Sky Planning Guideline to help protect one of the world's most important observatories from light pollution.
Dark sky education
We created a fun education unit so teachers, students and kids can all help protect the night sky.
Dark sky video series
Hear from leading experts on how light pollution is affecting the environment and our health.
Environment zones
The NSW Government is renaming ‘environment zones’ to ‘conservation zones’ to signal land use function more clearly.
Heritage Stoneworks
Heritage Stoneworks ensures that over 800 heritage-significant sandstone buildings across NSW remain operational such as schools, hospitals and courthouses.
About the Government Architect
The Government Architect NSW works across government, private sector and community to improve social, environmental and economic outcomes for NSW.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 provides the framework for NSW planning decisions, development assessment and strategic planning.
Building and subdivision
Building regulation and certification provisions play a key role in underpinning the design, construction and safety of buildings in NSW.
Community participation plans
Planning authorities, including councils and NSW agencies with key planning approval functions, must have a community participation plan which sets out how the planning authority will engage the public in their decision-making.