Regulated Sensitive Vegetation Land Categories in New South Wales

NSW Department of Planning and Environment compiled this geospatial layer identifying Category 2-sensitive regulated land under the Local Land Services Act 2013. The 2022 annual review updated the map, which includes land types such as Ramsar wetlands, private conservation agreements, and core koala habitat. Row and column counts are not specified in the input.

Use Cases

• Identify Ramsar wetland locations for environmental impact assessments under the EPBC Act 1999.
• Analyze spatial distribution of core koala habitat areas under approved Koala Plans of Management.
• Map Coastal Wetland or Littoral Rainforest areas regulated under the State Environmental Planning Policy (Coastal Management) 2018.
• Locate set-aside areas approved under the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2018 for compliance monitoring.
• Overlay critically endangered ecological community polygons with development planning zones.

Strengths

• Defined by specific legislative frameworks including Part 5A of the Local Land Services Act 2013 and the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
• Integrates multiple authoritative source datasets covering ten distinct regulated land types.
• Published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license permitting reuse.

Limitations

• No quantitative metadata (row count, column count, file size) is provided in the input.
• Sample data and specific column schema are unavailable, limiting immediate analytical understanding.
• Data is provided as an ArcGIS REST service and ZIP, requiring specialized geospatial tools for use.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (formerly Department of Planning and Environment).

Collection Method

Compiled from multiple regulatory and conservation datasets listed in the description, approved by the Secretary DPIE or delegate.

Time Range

Includes updates from the 2022 annual review, with approvals referenced between February 2021 and October 2021.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-03 25, though the substantive annual review referenced was published 23 March 2022.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.