Planning and Development
The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) supports healthy sustainable catchments and catchment communities. We encourage best practice sustainable land use in the catchments through a mix of incentives, shared information, education, and regulation.
We support, oversee and regulate planning and development in the catchment to protect catchment health and water quality. We are responsible for implementing the State Environmental Planning Policy (Sydney Drinking Water Catchment) 2011 to regulate development and activities in the catchment. We also implement the associated Local Planning Direction 5.2 Sydney Drinking Water Catchments to influence land planning and zoning in the catchment.
