Planning Agreement Register

A planning agreement, also known as a voluntary planning agreement, is an offer by a developer to Council. This offer could take the form of:

• Dedicating land
• Monetary contributions
• Other material public benefit.

The offer must be used for a public purpose such as:

• a community facility;
• affordable housing;
• public art;
• transport or other infrastructure relating to the development;
• the funding of recurrent expenditure relating to the provision of community facilities, affordable housing or transport or other infrastructure;
• the monitoring of the planning impacts of development; and
• the conservation or enhancement of the natural environment.

Planning agreements are entered into in relation to a development application or an amendment to the Local Environmental Plan.