AGY-3525 | Department of Urban and Transport Planning

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The Department of Urban and Transport Planning was proclaimed to commence on 2 April, 2003. The new Department consisted of:
most of the branches of the former Department of Planning [except the Resource and Conservation Division and the staff who worked principally for the Coastal Council] ;
the Infrastructure Co-Ordination Unit of the Premier’s Department; and
the staff of the Department of Transport who dealt principally with Transport planning (1)

The Department was operational by 9 May 2003 when its first proclamation - State Environmental Planning Policy No. 53 - Metropolitan Residential Development (Amendment no. 7) and several local environmental plans were issued. (2)

However the Department was formally abolished from 1 July, 2003 and its branches were added to the newly established Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources. (3)

Endnotes:
1. NSW Government Gazette, 2 April 2003, Special Supplement, pp.4326, 4328.
2. NSW Government Gazette, 9 May 2003, p.4679ff.
3. NSW Government Gazette No.102, Special Supplement, 20 June 2003, p.5900.