Overview
The Department of Planning and Infrastructure was created in March 2011 as a public sector division in the NSW Government. From 2005 to 2011, the Department was known as the Department of Planning.
In March 2011, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, Central Coast Regional Development Corporation, Office of Strategic Lands, Hunter Development Corporation and Luna Park Reserve Trust became attached to the Department. The Department's former heritage branch moved to the Office of Environment and Heritage.
The Department has 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.
Below is the Department's team of Executive Directors and Deputy Directors-General, who work beneath Director-General Sam Haddad.
Deputy Directors-General
- Plan Making & Urban Renewal – Tom Gellibrand
- Development Assessments – Richard Pearson
- Strategies and Land Release – Ian Reynolds
Executive Directors
- Corporate Governance & Policy – Donna Rygate
- Strategy & Infrastructure Planning – Andrew Jackson
- Land Release – Robert Black
- Planning Operations – Neil McGaffin
- Urban Renewal & Major Sites – Giovanni Cirillo
- Major DA Assessment – Chris Wilson
- Assessments Systems, General Counsel – Marcus Ray
The Department’s structure diagram is available here 
Priorities
The executive team has a 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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