State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs)

SEPPs may apply to all or parts of New South Wales. The ones that apply to Willoughby are:

• State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Resilience and Hazards) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Industry & Employment) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy No. 65 - Design Quality of Residential Flat Development
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Resources & Energy) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Eastern Harbour City) 2021
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Building Sustainability Index: BASIX) 2004
• State Environmental Planning Policy (Planning Systems) 2021
• The State Environmental Planning Policy (Sustainable Buildings) 2022 was made in August 2022 and comes into effect on 1 October 2023. 

Under clause 64 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000, Council may assume the NSW Department of Planning's Director-General's concurrence in respect of an application to vary a development standard under State Environmental Planning Policy No. 1 (SEPP 1/Clause 4.6), subject to maintaining a register and reporting these variations under SEPP 1/Clause 4.6 to the Department of Planning.

In regards the above, required information is collected through the NSW Planning Portal.

Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) is now repealed but some existing applications continue under this assessment regime, such as 6-30 Artarmon Road, Willoughby (the former Channel 9 site).