The Central West Regional Plan comprises a range of land use policies and aligned strategies that address the region’s environmental, social and economic priorities. It is the over-arching plan for the region, with land use provisions that inform other planning instruments.

Areas covered by the plan for the Central West region incorporates the local government areas of:

• Barcaldine Regional Council
• Barcoo Shire Council
• Blackall-Tambo Regional Council
• Boulia Shire Council
• Diamantina Shire Council
• Longreach Regional Council
• Winton Shire Council

Policies

The regional plan is the primary planning document in the Central West. The plan’s policies are set out under the following principles:

• natural environment
• natural resources
• strong communities
• urban development
• economic development
• infrastructure.

Implementation

A five-year implementation strategy for the plan will be developed by the Regional Coordination Committee with the involvement of all three levels of government, non government, the private sector and the community.

The Central West Regional Plan is a statutory plan that must be followed by state agencies and local governments in their planning and when assessing development. Local council may be required to amend their planning schemes to reflect the Central West Regional Plan, if there is any inconsistency.

The Central West Regional Plan was developed under the Integrated Planning Act 1997 and remains current under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009.

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Complete document

• Central West Regional Plan ( 1.4 MB)

Document sections

• Cover, content and foreword ( 172 KB)
• Part A: Introduction ( 176 KB)
• Part B: Regional vision ( 110 KB)
• Part C: Strategic directions ( 106 KB)
• Part D: Regional activity centres network ( 108 KB)
• Part E: Regional policies and strategies ( 93 KB)
  1. Natural environment ( 76 KB)
  2. Natural resources ( 96 KB)
  3. Strong communities ( 146 KB)
  4. Urban development ( 95 KB)
  5. Economic development ( 127 KB)
  6. Infrastructure ( 87 KB)
  7. Part F: Implementation, monitoring and review ( 83 KB)
  8. Appendix 1 ( 43 KB)
  9. Appendix 2 - Maps ( 445 KB)
  10. Bibliography, glossary and acknowledgements ( 85 KB)