Planning Strategy for Regional SA

There are currently five volumes in the Planning Strategy for South Australia:

  • The Planning Strategy for Metropolitan Adelaide (December 2007)
  • The Planning Strategy for the Outer Metropolitan Adelaide Region (December 2007)
  • The Planning Strategy for Regional SA (January 2003, as amended at December 2007)
  • The Yorke Peninsula Regional Land Use Framework (December 2007)
  • The Greater Mount Gambier Master Plan (February 2008)

The Planning Strategy provides direction from the State Government on land use and development over the medium term.

The Planning Strategy for Regional SA (January 2003) details directions for various regional planning areas of the state, including specific directions for:

  • Outback
  • Eyre Peninsula
  • Mid North
  • Upper Spencer Gulf
  • Riverland
  • Murraylands
  • South East
  • Kangaroo Island

Please note: Two sections of the original Planning Strategy for Regional SA (January 2003) volume have since been superseded. They were the sections applicable to the:

Another volume - the Greater Mount Gambier Master Plan (February 2008) - supplements the content of the South East section, superseding it as applicable to the Greater Mount Gambier area defined in the Master Plan.

In addition, two draft volumes which will supersede further sections of the Planning Strategy for Regional SA (January 2003) are currently under public consultation (see below):

  • Mid North Regional Land Use Framework
  • Far North Regional Land Use Framework

Document 

The Planning Strategy for Regional South Australia (January 2003, as amended at December 2007) is available here:

Updating the Planning Strategy for Regional SA 

Under a new State Government approach to regional land use planning, the entire ‘Regional SA’ volume of the Planning Strategy is being updated on a region-by-region basis over a two year period.

The Planning Strategy for Regional SA (January 2003) will therefore be gradually replaced by various stand-alone volumes of the Planning Strategy titled 'Regional Land Use Frameworks' (one for each country planning region). It is expected that the last of these will be completed by mid 2009.

This process began with the Yorke Peninsula Region and the development of the Yorke Peninsula Regional Land Use Framework, which was adopted as a new volume of the Planning Strategy on 13 December 2007 (link to another Planning SA page). A new volume covering the Greater Mount Gambier area was adopted in February 2008.

New Regional Frameworks for the Mid-North and the Far North are currently out for public consultation:

Preparation of a draft Framework for the combined Riverland/Murraylands region has also begun.