Information for Councils

The Neutral or Beneficial Effect on Water Quality Assessment Tool (the NorBE assessment tool) is a web-based decision making tool that records a NorBE assessment based on the guidelines. It is the first phase in the Sydney Catchment Authority's (SCA) delivery of web-based tools to help councils meet the requirements of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Sydney Drinking Water Catchment) 2011 (the SEPP).

Access to the tool is available for all catchment councils.

For any questions about access to the tool and how to use it to process your development applications, please contact Greg Greene of the SCA's Planning and Assessment team by email at greg.greene@sca.nsw.gov.au or by telephone (02) 4724 2446.

Please note that the NorBE assessment tool is built and hosted by a third party under contract to the SCA. The following link will direct you to a third party website to use the tool.

For technical help with the tool, please email scahelp@sca.nsw.gov.au .