Land use planning
DPI Agriculture helps plan for sustainable agriculture development. We do this in the context of state government policies and projects. For further information visit DPI Agriculture and Land Use Planning.
Some documents may contain information that is outdated but continues to be made available as a service to the public. Readers are advised to consider this prior to acting or relying on any information it contains.
- Agricultural Impact Statement technical notes (PDF, 299.4 KB)
- Agriculture issues for Extractive Industry Development
- Assessing intensive plant agriculture developments
- Agricultural issues for landfill developments
- Beef stocking rates and farm size: Hunter Region
- Best Practice Management for Meat Chicken Production in NSW
- Better site selection for meat poultry developments
- Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL) Maps
- Buffer Zones to Reduce Land Use Conflict with Agriculture – An Interim Guideline
- Confinement feeding stock
- Considerations before buying rural land
- Farm subdivision assessment guideline
- Guidelines for the development of controlled environment horticulture
- Infrastructure proposals on rural lands
- Issues for community title in agricultural areas
- Land Use Conflict Risk Assessment (LUCRA) Guide
- Livestock flood refuge mounds
- Planning for turf farms
- Planning Guidelines - Intensive Livestock Agriculture Development
- Preparing intensive plant agriculture development applications
- Protected Cropping and the NSW Planning & Approvals Process (PDF, 824.9 KB)
- Rural workers dwellings
- Right to Farm Policy
- Maintaining land for agricultural industries
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Primary Production and Rural Development) 2019
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
- Protection of Environment Operations Act 1997
- Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016
- Biosecurity Act 2015
- Pesticides Act 1999
- Soil Conservation Act 1938
- Contaminated Land Management Act 1997
- Water Management Act 2000
