Development and Planning Law - LAWS8071
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200 or 9210 or 5740 or 9231 or 5231 or 9220 or 5750 or 8623 or 5499 or 7339 or 9212 or 5212.
Excluded: JURD7371
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course introduces students to the legal framework regulating development and planning in NSW, exploring its ambitious and at times conflicting aims of economic development, environmental sustainability and social justice.
The course considers the evolution of planning law in NSW, beginning with a discussion of the origins of planning law in the UK and USA. Legislation and recent reforms in NSW will be examined in the context of trends in planning across Australia (eg contributions to planning policy by the Productivity Commission, COAG and the Development Assessment Forum) and internationally (eg impacts of globalisation). The course includes comparative analysis from other jurisdictions, and students will be encouraged to draw on their personal experience in Sydney and other cities around the world.
Main topics
The course considers the evolution of planning law in NSW, beginning with a discussion of the origins of planning law in the UK and USA. Legislation and recent reforms in NSW will be examined in the context of trends in planning across Australia (eg contributions to planning policy by the Productivity Commission, COAG and the Development Assessment Forum) and internationally (eg impacts of globalisation). The course includes comparative analysis from other jurisdictions, and students will be encouraged to draw on their personal experience in Sydney and other cities around the world.
Main topics
- Aims and origins of planning law
- Strategic planning (content and preparation of planning schemes)
- Assessment and approval of development in NSW, including major projects
- The relationship between planning and property law
- Theory and practice of public participation
- Ecologically sustainable development, climate change and planning
- Housing affordability, equity and social justice
- Planning appeals and the NSW Land and Environment Court
- Recent developments in planning law
This course will prepare students for practice in environmental, property or real estate law, where a sound understanding of the planning framework is essential. It is also recommended for students interested in public policy: planning is a highly political process, particularly in Sydney where it regularly gives rise to fierce disputes in the media and the courts.
This course is also available to students undertaking relevant postgraduate non-law degree programs at UNSW provided such enrolment is approved by the appropriate non-law Faculty.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
This course is also available to students undertaking relevant postgraduate non-law degree programs at UNSW provided such enrolment is approved by the appropriate non-law Faculty.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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