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Growth Centres Commission

In December 2004, the NSW Government announced the new land release plan for the South West and North West Growth Centres as a key plank of the Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney. The Growth Centres will accommodate 30 to 40 percent of Sydney's long term housing growth.

The Growth Centres will eventually accommodate 181,000 new homes, serviced by $7.5 billion of infrastructure.

The Growth Centres Commission has been established by the NSW Government to ensure that new development proceeds with infrastructure and services planned, funded and linked to the sequence of land release.

The Commission has the planning, development and financial management capabilities of a development corporation. The Commission will design and manage a streamlined planning and development approval process along with the timely provision of infrastructure promoting high quality new development.

The Commission is responsible for working with infrastructure agencies, industry, local councils, landowners and the community to make the plans for the Growth Centres a reality.

Key Responsibilities

The Growth Centres Commission's functions are:

• preparing plans for the funding and development of regional infrastructure
• controlling Precinct Plans for each precinct (or part of a precinct where anomolies exist in the boundaries) within the North West and South West Growth Centres
• recommending to the Minister for Planning new precincts for staged land release
• administration - including collection, holding and management - of the new Special Infrastructure Contributions to pay for regional infrastructure
• implementing regional infrastructure in consultation with state agencies to support new development; and
• negotiating with government, landowners and developers to ensure development is facilitated in a sustainable and timely way.

Outcomes

By establishing the Commission as a new body, the NSW Government, through the Metropolitan Strategy, can achieve:

• the orderly sequencing of land release in time with the provision of infrastructure
• the sustainable urban structure and form incorporated in the structure plan
• the protection of biodiversity, regional open space and water resources
• contributions from new development for regional and local infrastructure
• contributions from the State budget in recognition of the broader beneficiaries of many projects in the Growth Centres.

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