The NSW Government has finalised the Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands, providing a more equitable and coordinated approach to planning, managing and protecting industrial lands across NSW.
The Policy:
- establishes a consistent, evidence-based framework for planning and protecting industrial lands across NSW
- introduces a framework for industrial lands to be categorised as state, regionally and locally significant industrial lands based on their spatial contribution to economic activity and their significance in a network of industrial lands
- supports better planning for new and intensified industrial areas.
The Policy is a key action from the NSW Government’s Industrial Lands Action Plan. It will be applied to regions through strategic planning. This is demonstrated in the Sydney Plan and the draft Illawarra Shoalhaven Plan.
The draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands was exhibited from 10 December 2025 to 27 February 2026. Feedback received from the community, councils, industry and stakeholders helped inform the final Policy.
Submissions uploaded are those directly made to the draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands through the NSW Planning Portal.
In some cases, submissions on draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands feedback were made on other documents being exhibited at the same time, including the draft Sydney Plan and A New Approach to Strategic Planning - Discussion Paper.
The relevant feedback associated with the draft Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands were counted as submissions in the Public Exhibition Outcomes Report.
As a result, the total number of submissions received and reported does not directly align with the number of submission documents published.
More Information
For more information, visit the State Plan and Employment Lands webpages or email [email protected]
Finalised documents
Finalised documents
The Statewide Policy for Industrial Lands has now been finalised and is a technical appendix to the State Plan. View the final policy on the State Plan webpage.