Overview
In May 2009, the Department established three divisions focussing on key activities in planning – land release, urban renewal and major project assessment. A fourth division focuses on corporate governance and policy development.
The following executive team has been selected to operate from May 18, 2009:
Deputy Directors-General
- Plan Making & Urban Renewal – Tom Gellibrand (previously Deputy General Manager Strategy at the Growth Centres Commission)
- Development Assessments – Richard Pearson (previously Department of Planning Rural and Regional Planning Executive Director)
- Strategies and Land Release – Ian Reynolds (previously General Manager Operations at the Growth Centres Commission)
Executive Directors
- Corporate Governance & Policy – Donna Rygate (previously Deputy Director-General Strategy, Communications and Governance at the Department of Community Services)
- Strategy & Infrastructure Planning – Andrew Jackson (previously Principal Advisor, Urban Planning at NSW Treasury)
- Land Release – Robert Black (previously Deputy General Manager Land Release at the Growth Centres Commission)
- Planning Operations – Neil McGaffin (previously Department of Planning Southern Region Regional Director)
- Urban Renewal & Major Sites – Giovanni Cirillo (previously Director City Planning and Regulatory Services at the City of Sydney Council)
- Major DA Assessment – Chris Wilson (previously Department of Planning Major Projects Assessments Executive Director)
- Assessments Systems, General Counsel – Marcus Ray (previously Department of Planning Legal Services Director)
The Department’s structure diagram is available here 
Priorities
The executive team will focus on the following priorities:
- Promoting and facilitating sustainable growth
- Supporting affordable and appropriately-serviced housing and employment land
- Assessing major projects and infrastructure in a timely and efficient way, while ensuring appropriate planning outcomes
- Planning to help mitigate against climate change
- Improving service delivery to our communities and our stakeholders
- Implementing reforms to create a more efficient, transparent and accountable planning system and importantly, the communication of these reforms.
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