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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.
The current main plan for Sydney developed by the Greater Sydney Commission, 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. [21]
The Greater Sydney Commission's regional plan for Sydney divide the metropolis into three "cities", with approximately defined boundaries. Alternatively, the metropolis is divided into more precisely defined "districts", each of which comprises multiple local government areas. [ 1 ]
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]
[2] [3] Under the NSW Greater Cities Commission (formally the Greater Sydney Commission), the Greater Sydney Region along with Newcastle, the Central Coast, and Wollongong, will constitute a Sandstone Mega-region that will make-up 70% of the NSW population and 25% of the national population. [4]
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
It makes plans based on evidence for the state's cities and regions, working with the community, business and local government to create places for people in NSW to live, work and spend their leisure time, while ensuring good access to transport and other services like shops and restaurants.
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 ...