The Greenfield Housing Code (the Code) speeds up delivery of new homes in greenfield areas (urban release areas) across NSW.

The Low Rise Housing Diversity Code (the Code) and the Low Rise Housing Diversity Design Guide (the Design Guide) encourage housing diversity.

The new Inland Code (the Code) has been introduced to increase the use of complying development in inland NSW and achieve faster approvals for houses and farm buildings. It combines the complying development standards for all residential and rural zones in inland NSW into one new Code.

Some areas have unique qualities that need special planning and development assessment provisions.

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Councils will refer the certain applications to the necessary agency so that there is an integrated assessment of the proposal.

Examples of documents are: regional plans, district plans, guidelines and planning circulars.

A Ministerial Order is a decision made by a Minister. The Ministerial Orders are available on the Planning Portal.