New South Wales – New Climate Change SEPP Follows on Heels of EPA Act Amendment

The NSW Government (Government) has proposed a new Climate Change and Natural Hazards State Environmental Planning Policy (CC&NH SEPP) to supplant the current State Environmental Planning Policy (Resilience and Hazards) 2021 (Resilience and Hazards SEPP). The CC&NH SEPP, which aims to consolidate and strengthen climate change controls within the one instrument, follows the insertion of a new climate change object into the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (EPA Act) through the... By: K&L Gates LLP