See the Draft Environment Planning and Assessment Amendment (Gateway Process for Strategic Agricultural Land) Regulation 2012; and the Draft State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) Amendment 2012 These proposed reforms have run parallel with major proposed reforms to the planning system of New South Wales. See generally, NSW Government‘A New Planning System for NSW – Green Paper'’ (July 2012) and ‘A New Planning System for NSW – White Paper'’ (April 2013). All reforms share the stated objective of ‘sustainable economic growth.’ (White Paper, 2013, 5).
The other SRLUP released in September 2012 related to New England North West.
5.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, ‘Upper Hunter Strategic Regional Land Use Plan’, September 2012, 9.
6.
Alan Randall, ‘Coal Seam Gas – Toward a Risk Management Framework for a Novel Intervention’ (2012) 29Environmental and Planning Law Journal152, 162.
7.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 5, 2.
8.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 3, 4.
9.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 5, 21.
10.
Ibid23. Note that the concept of a ‘gateway’ in the planning process was also introduced into another area of planning system in NSW, the Local Environment Plan (‘LEP’) in 2009 Although a different area of planning law and policy, it uses the concept of a ‘gateway’ for a similar purpose: The consideration of proposed development at an early stage prior to the submission of a complete Development Application (‘DA’).
11.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 3, 13.
12.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 5, 2.
13.
Ibid77.
14.
StonerM P AndrewPremierDeputy, Minister for Trade and Investment, ‘Jock Laurie Appointed Inaugural Land and Water Commissioner’, Media Release, 1 December, 2012
OwensKatherine, ‘Strategic Regional Land Use Plans: Presenting the Future for Coal Seam Gas Projects in NSW’ (2012) 29Environmental and Planning Law Journal113, 117.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Ibid.
20.
Character Preservation (McLaren Vale) Act 2012 (SA) s 6.
See Randall, above n 6; and, Owens, above n 17, 118 and 120.
31.
Randall, above n 6; and Owens above n 17, 119.
32.
See, eg, WilliamsJohnStubbsTimMilliganAnn (2012) An Analysis of Coal Seam Gas Production and Natural Resource Management in Australia (Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors/John Williams Scientific Services).
33.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 5, 76–77.
34.
See PoiselTim, ‘Coal seam gas exploration and production in New South Wales: The Case for Better Strategic Planning and More Stringent Regulation’ (2012) 29Environmental and Planning Law Journal129, 149; and, Owens, above n 17, 127.
35.
NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure, above n 5, 77.
Draft Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Mining, Petroleum Production and Extractive Industries) (Coal Seam Gas Exclusion Zones)2013
GibsonGraeme, ‘It's Now Official - AGL will Ignore the O'Farrell Government's CSG Exclusion Zones and Will Continue Exploratory Drilling’, 25 February 2013, Gas Watch 196 (online) http://www.huntervalleyprotectionalliance.com/.
