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Under Minister for Planning, Pru Goward, the Greater Sydney Commission was announced in parallel with A Plan for Growing Sydney in December 2014 [3] and formally empowered with the passing of the Greater Sydney Commission Act 2015 [4] under Minister for Planning Rob Stokes.
Developed by the Greater Sydney Commission and published in March 2018, The Greater Sydney Region Plan – A Metropolis of Three Cities lays out the vision for an integrated approach to land use and transport planning and aims to boost the liveability, productivity and sustainability for a growing Sydney population. [12]
In its broadest definition, Greater Sydney covers the city of Sydney in addition to four neighbouring regions: the Blue Mountains, the Hawkesbury, Macarthur and Wollondilly. [2] During the COVID-19 pandemic , Greater Sydney was defined as the city of Sydney itself as well as the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong (including both ...
It represents a formalisation of a widely understood linear spatial relationship between Greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong. It consists of the following areas: Lower Hunter and Greater Newcastle City - consisting of the City of Cessnock, City of Lake Macquarie, City of Maitland, City of Newcastle, and Port Stephens local government areas
An independent and illustrated account of the preparation of the plan was published by Arthur Winston in 1957. The plan was resisted by NSW Government agencies, landowners and local residents and lost its patron when the county council was abolished in 1963. [3] The plan was eventually superseded by the Sydney Region Outline Plan in 1968. [4]
Examples include the Sydney County of Cumberland Plan of 1948 (regarded as the first metropolitan plan for Sydney) and the Sydney Region Outline Plan of 1968. From the early 1970s the Australian Federal Government became directly involved in urban policy with the Whitlam Labour government establishing for the first time a federal Department of ...
The previous Department of Planning and Environment's corporate plan was outlined in Planning for Growing NSW: 2015–2017 that aimed to plan for growth by inspiring strong communities and by protecting the environment. [3]: 4 In keeping with this, the department's priorities were: [3]: 7 Enabling the creation of strong, vibrant communities
The urban planning of Sydney, Australia has been done formally and informally since at least the city's establishment in 1788.The city has been characterised as an 'accidental city', [1] with planning advocate JD Fitzgerald claiming that it was "a city without a plan, save whatever planning was due to the errant goat".