Proposed miscellaneous amendments to the General Regulations

The South Australian Government is seeking feedback on proposed amendments to help clarify the state’s planning regulations.

The draft Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) (Miscellaneous) (No 2) Amendment Regulations 2023 (PDF, 176 KB) proposes a number of amendments to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017 (General Regulations).

Proposed key amendments to the General Regulations include:

• making Assessment Managers at councils the designated authority for assessing and approving Building Envelope Plans
• clarifying that the operative period of any consent aligns with the operative period of the final development approval
• updating the notification period prescribed in regulation 93(1)(b) of the General Regulations to five business days’ notice for out of council areas to allow more time to plan for and undertake inspections if required
• amending regulation 104(8)(d) of the General Regulations to make reference to a communications facility under the Commonwealth's Telecommunications Act 1997
• a new clause that prescribes establishing transhipment points associated with a proposed or existing port facility for transferring bulk commodities within state coastal waters as development
• exempting hazard monitoring equipment from requiring development approval in certain circumstances
• increasing the scope of exempt works associated with the supply, disposal or treatment of water or waste water in schedule 13 of the General Regulations
• minor editorial changes that will provide greater clarity throughout the Regulations.

Feedback on the proposed amendments (PDF, 157 KB) can be submitted to PlanSASubmissions@sa.gov.au by 5:00 pm, 8 December 2023.