Friday, September 2

Draft to Protect Agricultural Land



Southern Downs Regional Council mayor Ron Bellingham

SOUTHERN Downs landholders are being implored to familiarise themselves with draft legislation, which is designed to protect agricultural land, but could have a huge impact on their ability to build infrastructure.
While the Strategic Cropping Land Draft State Planning Policy has been pitched as being a scheme to protect our best farmland from mining and other industry, the fine print raises some serious questions.
Landholders' options will be limited if their property is proved to be on Strategic Cropping Land under the scheme and infrastructure, say a packing shed of greater than 700 m2, could no longer be constructed.  Read More

Warwick Daily News

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