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The SEPP regulates signage and advertising in transport corridors, provides time-limited consents, and ensures that this advertising provides public benefits.

The Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) (EPBC) is the Commonwealth’s central piece of environmental legislation.

Information on building regulation in NSW, including design, construction and safety requirements that support quality, compliant and sustainable buildings.

You can install air-conditioning units in your home as exempt development. Exempt development is minor building work that does not need approval. 

The NSW Coastal Lands Protection Scheme brings important coastal lands into public ownership and protects them for public use and benefit.

Not all development requires consent. This applies to some low-impact or routine activities such as environmental protection works in conservation zones.

The State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021 (Transport and Infrastructure SEPP) provides a more efficient planning framework for delivering infrastructure in NSW.

A fire safety certificate is a document issued by or on behalf of the building owner(s) upon the completion of new building work.

The NSW Government made automatic fire sprinkler systems mandatory in all residential aged care facilities after the tragic nursing home fire in Quakers Hill in 2011. These laws took effect on 1 January 2013.

Smoke alarms are life-saving devices compulsory in all residential buildings where people sleep, including relocatable homes, caravans and moveable dwellings.