Agricultural 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Some documents may contain information that is outdated but continues to be made available as a service to the public.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.
The NSW Agriculture Commissioner’s report 'Improving the Prospects for Agriculture and Regional Australia in the NSW Planning System' is now available.
Have your Say
The draft State Significant Agricultural Land map is now open for public exhibition. The NSW Government will consider how this map can best be used in the NSW planning framework.
View the draft State Significant Agricultural Land map, along with more detail on how it was developed.
Provide your feedback on the draft map by:
- Viewing the map and making comments using the map features
- Completing the survey on the SSAL Map web page
- Provide a submission to DPI via ssalfeedback@dpi.nsw.gov.au
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Reference material to assist in the management of horse establishments
- 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
- 2006, 2011 & 2016 ABS Agricultural census data
- Agriculture industry snapshots for planning
- Agriculture industry mapping: Pilot mapping project
- Agricultural land use mapping resources in NSW: User's guide
- A guideline to identifying important agricultural lands in NSW
- Interpreting important agricultural land maps
