Employment Lands Development Monitor 2022: Industrial Land Status Across NSW Regions

The Employment Lands Development Monitor (ELDM) 2022 provides a snapshot of industrial land and business park status across Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter, Illawarra-Shoalhaven, and parts of Regional NSW as of January 2022. It is an annual audit conducted by the Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure to inform planning decisions for job creation. The data is published as a Map Image Layer via an ArcGIS REST service.

Use Cases

• Assess industrial land availability for business park development based on the annual land audit.
• Monitor changes in employment lands over time based on the multi-year monitoring program.
• Analyze the impact of COVID-19 on industrial and commercial markets based on reports covering the first half of 2022.
• Inform regional planning decisions for job creation based on data covering Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter, and Illawarra-Shoalhaven.

Strengths

• Provides a consistent annual snapshot of land status since 2010 for Sydney and Central Coast.
• Covers multiple regions including Hunter (since 2017) and Illawarra-Shoalhaven (since 2018).
• Includes analysis of market impacts, such as from COVID-19, for the first half of 2022.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is a point-in-time snapshot as of January 2022; subsequent changes are not reflected.

Provenance

Source

Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (NSW Government)

Collection Method

Annual land audit and monitoring program.

Time Range

Snapshot as of January 2022, with some reports covering first half of 2022.

Freshness

Yearly update frequency; data currency is listed as 01/04/2023.

Geography

Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter, Illawarra-Shoalhaven Regions, and summary for parts of Regional NSW.