Land use planning: Agriculture
Aerial view across agricultural land and the Hunter River
A simplified agricultural land classification map
Urban-farm interface
A cattle feedlot near Moree
Growing gerberas in a greenhouse
Draft Strategic Regional Land Use Policies Released - Have your say
Draft plans and policies to protect high-quality agricultural land and its water sources from inappropriate mining and coal seam gas projects.
Development Application and Assessment guidelines
- Agriculture issues for Extractive Industry Development
- Assessing intensive plant agriculture developments
- Agricultural issues for landfill developments
- Beef stocking rates and farm size - Hunter Region
- Better site selection for meat poultry developments
- Farm subdivision assessment guideline
- Guidelines for the development of controlled environment horticulture
- Infrastructure proposals on rural lands
- Interpreting important agricultural land maps
- Issues for community title in agricultural areas
- Land Use Conflict Risk Assessment (LUCRA) Guide
- Livestock flood refuge mounds
- NSW meat chicken farming guidelines
- Planning for horse establishments
- Precautions when buying rural land
- Preparing a development application for intensive agriculture in NSW
- Preparing intensive plant agriculture development applications
- Rabbit farming: Planning and development control guidelines
- Rural workers dwellings
Environmental Management Guidelines (BMP)
- Best practice guidelines for growing vegetables
- Best practice guidelines for using poultry litter on pastures
- Environmental management guidelines for the dairy industry
- Environmental management guidelines for growing cut flowers
- National model codes of practice for intensive animal industries
Policies
- Policy O-104 Maintaining land for agricultural industries
58.2 KB - Policy for sustainable agriculture in NSW
Strategic planning
- How NSW DPI is assisting with the protection of rural lands
- Minimum lot size methodology
- 'Living and working in rural areas' - handbook
- 'Living and working in rural areas' - brochure
- Agricultural land classification
- Rainfall maps (www.bom.gov.au)
- Drought maps
- Soil survey for wise land management (www.environment.nsw.gov.au)
- Strategic plan for sustainable agriculture in the Sydney region
- Understanding the social context of land-use in the Boorowa catchment
- Agricultural land classification study - Taree shire
- Agricultural land classification study - Walgett shire
Forms
Publications and reports
- Planning for the future of rural land - conference proceedings
- Sydney's agriculture - Planning for the future (Forum Outcomes Report)
- Salinity-related journal papers, conference papers and reports
- Farm forestry strategy for NSW
- Analysis of 2006 ABS Population Census and Agriculture Census Data for Statistical Divisions of NSW
From the Bookshop
- Agricultural land classification atlas - Sydney Basin
- Bringing back the bush
- Bringing back the rainforest - the Tocal experience
- Environmental self-assessment guide - for grain farms in the northern grain region
- Managing waste water with a wetland
- Managing waterways on farms
- National guide to environmental management systems in agriculture (CD)
- Nature conservation on farms
- Physical property planning
- Plan for trees - a guide to farm revegetation
- Producer's guide to starting a small beef feedlot in NSW
- Put yourself in the picture
- Tocal code of land use practice
Correspondence
All land use planning correspondence should be directed, in the first instance, to:
Resource Planning & Development Unit
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Head Office, Locked Bag 21 ORANGE NSW 2800
Or emailed to landuse.enquiries@industry.nsw.gov.au