Planning District Boundaries

Identifies the district boundaries declared in the Environmental Planning and Assessment (Greater Sydney Region Districts) Order 2017. For the purposes of Part 3B of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, the following districts are declared, with the names specified below, for those parts of the Greater Sydney Region within the local government areas specified next to the name of each district:

  • Eastern City District – comprising the local government areas of Bayside, Burwood, Canada Bay, Inner West, City of Randwick, Strathfield, City of Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra,
  • Central City District – comprising the local government areas of City of Blacktown, Cumberland, City of Parramatta and The Hills Shire,
  • Western City District – comprising the local government areas of Camden, City of Campbelltown, City of Blue Mountains, City of Fairfield, City of Hawkesbury, City of Liverpool, City of Penrith and Wollondilly,
  • North District – comprising the local government areas of Hornsby, Hunter’s Hill, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Mosman, North Sydney, Norther Beaches, City of Ryde and City Willoughby,
  • South District – comprising the local government areas of Canterbury-Bankstown, Georges River and Sutherland Shire.
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Metadata template type Vector
Asset Type Dataset
Edition 2
Purpose Used in creation of Sydney district planning which are intended to set out how A Plan for Growing Sydney will apply to local areas.
Update Frequency As needed
OEH Service DPE Service
Keywords LAND-Geography,BOUNDARIES-Administrative
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Surface
Object count
Geospatial Topic Planning cadastre
NSW Place Name Metropolitan Sydney
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Temporal Coverage From 2017-09-21
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
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