EPA SA assists developers and community to better understand their position on the proposed changes to SA’s Planning System

The South Australian EPA is closely involved in improvements to SA’s planning strategy through the assessment of potential environmental issues associated with development.

EPA has prepared position statements and guidelines to help local government planners, developers, consultants, and the community to better understand the EPA’s position on air quality, noise, radiation, waste, wastewater, and water quality in the context of the state’s planning system.

These position statements and guidelines assist those preparing planning documents to understand how the environment can be safeguarded within planning strategy and policy guidelines documents.

EPA’s planning staff can be contacted to discuss the EPA’s expectations on environmental protection for any proposed planning policy matter or development. AEA also supports these improvements and are keen to assist developers and planners to understand these updates, and how it may affect their projects, once announced and implemented. The full story is available here.