Regional plans play a significant role in identifying land and long-term infrastructure needs to support sustainable growth within the regions. It will highlight how these important changes can be accommodated over a 15 to 30-year period.
The Planning Development and Infrastructure Act 2016 requires a regional plan to be prepared for each planning region within South Australia:
- Greater Adelaide (27 councils)
- Limestone Coast (7 councils)
- Eyre and Western (11 councils)
- Murray Mallee (8 councils)
- Yorke Peninsula and Mid North (11 councils)
- Kangaroo Island (1 council)
- Far North (4 councils, OCA and Aboriginal Lands).
The State Planning Commission (the Commission) is responsible for preparing the seven regional plans in collaboration with local government, state agencies, industry and the community.
The regional plans spatially apply the State Planning Policies and ensure integration of land use, transport, public realm in each region through:
- maps and plans
- forward projections, statistical data and analysis
- frameworks for the public realm and infrastructure
- recommendations for the Planning and Design Code (rezonings).