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State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity & Conservation) 2021

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 20/10/2025

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This SEPP contains:

planning rules and controls for the clearing of native vegetation in NSW on land zoned for urban and environmental purposes that is not linked to a development application the land use planning and assessment framework for koala habitat provisions which establish a consistent and co-ordinated approach to environmental planning and assessment along the River Murray provisions seeking to protect and preserve bushland within public open space zones and reservations provisions which aim to prohibit canal estate development provisions to support the water quality objectives for the Sydney drinking water catchment provisions to protect the environment of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system provisions to manage and improve environmental outcomes for Sydney Harbour and its tributaries provisions to manage and promote integrated catchment management policies along the Georges River and its tributaries provisions which seek to protect, conserve and manage the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes property.

This SEPP has consolidated and repealed:

SEPP (Vegetation in Non-Rural Areas) 2017 SEPP (Koala Habitat Protection) 2020 SEPP (Koala Habitat Protection) 2021 Murray Regional Environmental Plan No 2—Riverine Land SEPP No 19—Bushland in Urban Areas SEPP No 50—Canal Estate Development SEPP (Sydney Drinking Water Catchment) 2011 Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 20 – Hawkesbury – Nepean River (No 2 – 1997) Sydney Regional Environmental Plan (Sydney Harbour Catchment) 2005 Greater Metropolitan Regional Environmental Plan No 2 – Georges River Catchment Willandra Lakes Regional Environmental Plan No 1 – World Heritage Property

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Title State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity & Conservation) 2021
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/bdfbe16c-0445-4bc2-8f6e-154706da3713
Remote Last Updated 09/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 03/01/2022
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity & Conservation) 2021". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-state-environmental-planning-policy-biodiversity-conservation-2021