Resources

The National Urban Policy supports our highest priorities, from equitable access to jobs, homes and services, to climate resilience and lowering emissions.

It includes a shared vision for sustainable urban growth, as agreed by National Planning Ministers. It also outlines our priorities as we work with partner governments on issues that impact our urban areas to be more:

• liveable and equitable 
• productive and innovative
• sustainable and resilient.

It provides a framework and goals that support all cities, large and small—from our central business districts to suburban and peri-urban realms and everything in between.

The National Urban Policy was developed with input from stakeholders including other Commonwealth agencies, state, territory and local governments, industry, urban policy experts and First Nations stakeholders.

The Urban Policy Forum, chaired by Emeritus Professor Barbara Norman, played an integral role in developing the National Urban Policy. These experts in urban development were central to delivering the Government’s revitalised approach to urban policy, highlighting the urgent challenges facing our cities and suburbs.

This work builds on our strong investment in cities and suburbs, including the Thriving Suburbs Program, urban and regional Precincts and Partnerships Programs and the Housing Support Program. 

South Australia has set a target to increase urban green cover by 20 per cent by 2045, in an
effort to maintain community liveability, enhance biodiversity and secure the future of our State
in the face of a changing climate and increasing urban density.

The State Planning Policies set out a framework for land use that aims to improve the liveability, sustainability and prosperity of the state.

They provide the state-wide vision for South Australia’s planning and design system.

State Planning Policy 1: Integrated Planning
State Planning Policy 2: Design Quality
State Planning Policy 3: Adaptive Reuse
State Planning Policy 4: Biodiversity
State Planning Policy 5: Climate Change
State Planning Policy 6: Housing Supply and Diversity
State Planning Policy 7: Cultural Heritage
State Planning Policy 8: Primary Industry
State Planning Policy 9: Employment Lands
State Planning Policy 10: Mineral and Energy Resources
State Planning Policy 11: Strategic Transport Infrastructure
State Planning Policy 12: Energy
State Planning Policy 13: Coastal Environment
State Planning Policy 14: Water Security and Quality
State Planning Policy 15: Natural Hazards
State Planning Policy 16: Emissions and Hazardous Activities

Movement and place is a best practice planning methodology which can guide the way our transport networks and the places they interact with, are planned, designed and operated. Movement and place seeks to balance the transport network's role in the movement of people and goods with the role of transport corridors, nodes and precincts, as places that are essential to live, shop, work, carry out business and socialise.

This policy updates the Positive Provision Policy for Cycling Infrastructure. The 2013 policy aimed to inform State Government decision-making in relation to investment in cycling infrastructure, particularly in the planning and design of new roads and road upgrades.

This Tasmanian Walk, Wheel, Ride Policy 2024 updates the previous policy to include all forms of active transport and active travel, expand the scope to cover all departmental infrastructure and transport services projects, emphasise the importance of early consideration of walking, wheeling and riding within departmental projects and activities, and clarify the procedure to include walking, wheeling and cycling.

The NSW Public Spaces Charter (PDF, 1.7 MB) has been developed to support the planning, design, management and activation of public spaces in NSW. It identifies 10 principles for quality public space, developed through evidence-based research and discussions with public space experts and community members.

The Education Act 2015 (NT) stipulates that parents are responsible for ensuring that their children receive an education. This includes their responsibility to ensure their child/ren have appropriate transport to travel to and from school.

The Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (DIPL) and the Department of Education acknowledges that families of children and young people with special needs may experience difficulties when arranging school transport options for their children. To assist in allaying these difficulties, DIPL provides transport services for eligible children and young people with special needs who are unable to travel to school independently and safely and may not be able to access education without the provision of special needs transport to and from school.

The transport services provided by DIPL do not operate to relieve parents of their responsibilities. The service supports those children with special needs who have limited or no other viable transport options to continue to receive an education.

The PTA Accessibility Policy has been developed as the overarching document for access.  Our Accessibility Policy outlines how the PTA shall, as far as reasonably practical, provide public passenger transport services and facilities that are accessible to all passengers.

Transport for NSW allocates physical and temporal road user space safely and equitably to support the movement of people and goods and place objectives

Every major new transport project – from North East Link to the West Gate Tunnel – now includes new or upgraded infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians.

The Cycling Infrastructure Policy is an important mechanism to deliver the Queensland Government’s vision for more cycling, more often and Transport and Main Roads’ vision of a single integrated transport system accessible to everyone.