NSW Government
Planning

Koala Habitat Protection SEPP

Koala in tree, Wollondilly Koala Project. Credit: Bear Hunt Photography / Save Our Species program
Koala in tree, Wollondilly Koala Project.
Credit: Bear Hunt Photography / Save Our Species program
 

State environmental planning policy for koala habitat protection is contained in 2 chapters of State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021.

  • Chapter 3 ‘Koala habitat protection 2020’ applies to rural zoned land (RU1 Primary Production, RU2 Rural Landscape and RU3 Forestry) in 74 local government areas (LGAs).
  • Chapter 4 ‘Koala habitat protection 2021’ applies to the remaining zones in 74 LGAs, and to all zones in Metropolitan Sydney (Blue Mountains, Campbelltown, Hawkesbury, Ku-ring-gai, Liverpool, Northern Beaches, Hornsby, Wollondilly) and the Central Coast.

View the Koala SEPP LGA list

Timeline

  1. 1995

    State Environmental Planning Policy 44 – Koala Habitat Protection is introduced.

  2. 2019

    State Environmental Planning Policy (Koala Habitat Protection) 2019 replaced SEPP 44.

  3. November 2020

    State Environmental Planning Policy (Koala Habitat Protection) 2020 replaced and repealed the 2019 Koala SEPP. The 2020 SEPP largely reinstated SEPP 44.

  4. March 2021

    State Environmental Planning Policy (Koala Habitat Protection) 2021 begins.

  5. March 2022

    Koala SEPPs are consolidated in State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021

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