Flood Prone Land Package

The NSW Government is committed to keeping our communities safe.

An updated flood-prone land package commenced on 14 July 2021.

The package provides advice to councils on considering flooding in land-use planning and includes:

• a revised 9.1 local planning direction on flooding
• a new planning circular on flooding PS21-006 - considering flooding in land use planning: guidance and statutory requirements, which replaces planning circular PS 07-003
• a new guideline - Considering Flooding in Land Use Planning, which replaces the Guideline on Development Controls on Low Flood Risk Areas
• Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Amendment (Flood Planning) Order 2021, which includes a mandatory ‘flood planning’ clause and an optional ‘special flood consideration’ clause
• Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Flood Planning) Regulation 2021 which amends the 7A clauses under Schedule 4, and
• State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Flood Planning) 2021 which revokes councils existing flood planning LEP clause and replaces it with the mandatory Standard Instrument flood planning clause.

A draft updated flood-prone land package was on exhibition from 30 April 2020 until 25 June 2020. To accompany the finalised package, a submission’s report is also available. 

The report summarises feedback received during exhibition and how that feedback was addressed in the final documents.