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NT Planning Scheme

About the NT Planning Scheme

The Planning Act provides for a single integrated NT Planning Scheme, and as a specific planning scheme, the Jabiru Town Plan.The Minister is responsible for management of the Planning Schemes.

The NT Planning Scheme contains provisions that include:

  • statements of policy with respect to the use or development of land;
  • provisions that permit, prohibit or impose conditions on a use or development of land;
  • provisions that provide instructions, guidelines or assessment criteria to assist the consent authority in assessing development applications;
  • other provisions in connection with planning for, or control of, the use or development of land; and
  • maps, plans, designs and diagrams.

NT Planning Scheme

Full Document (PDF 53MB)

This is a large document. For quicker downloading, the document has been split into parts below.

Alternatively, users may purchase a hard copy from the offices of the Department of Lands, Planning and the Environment.

Part

Size

Table of Contents

260KB

User Guide to the Northern Territory Planning Scheme

489KB

Part 1

225KB

1.0 Preliminary

 

2.0 Administration

 

3.0 Definitions

 

Part 2

4.9MB

4.0 Planning Principles and Framework

 

Part 3

529KB

Index of Zones

 

5.0 Zone Purpose and Tables

 

Part 4

2.3MB

6.0 General Performance Criteria

 

7.0 Residential Performance Criteria

 

8.0 Commercial Use and Development Performance Criteria

 

9.0 Industrial Use and Development Performance Criteria

 

10.0 Non Urban Use and Development Performance Criteria

 

Part 5

211KB

11.0 Subdivision

 

Part 6

169KB

12.0 Aboriginal Communities and Towns

 

Part 7

898KB

13.0 Transport and Infrastructure

 

Part 8

40MB

14.0 Area Plans

 

Schedules

 

Schedule 1: Schedule to Clause 2.4 Specific Uses

4.6MB

Schedule 2: Schedule to Clause 2.7 Reference to Policy

124KB

Schedule 3: Schedule to Clause 2.8 Reference to Guidelines

97KB

Schedule 4: Schedule to Clause 12.1 Aboriginal Community Living Areas

15KB

Schedule 5: Schedule to Clause 12.2 Towns on Aboriginal Land

8KB

Schedule 6: Schedule to Clause 1.3 sub-clause 2(l) Exceptions

9KB

Background Material

9KB

Zoning Matrix

56KB

 

Amendments to the NT Planning Scheme

Amendments to the NT Planning Scheme (including additional / replacement pages) may be viewed in the Table of amendments

Please follow this link for more information on the Planning Scheme Amendment process.

Email Notification of Amendments

The Department of Lands, Planning and the Environment offers a free email notification service to assist clients in keeping up to date with amendments to the Northern Territory Planning Scheme.