Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan

What's happening?

The Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board (the Board) reviews its Regional Landscape Plan every five years.

This plan guides how the Board safeguards Eyre Peninsula’s natural and productive environment in partnership with the community.

It’s now time for the five-year review of the current plan. To guide our next five-year plan, we are seeking community input around what is valued about our EP landscapes and what we should consider in this review.

Background

The priorities in our 2021-2026 Regional Landscape Plan are pest plants and animals, biodiversity, water, sustainable agriculture and community. Underpinning these priorities is adaptation to climate change.

Under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019, we have statutory requirements for managing declared pest plants and animals, land protection and management, and water planning and management. In addition, the Act promotes ecologically sustainable development and biodiversity conservation, with a strong emphasis on community-led and locally-delivered landscape management.

To guide the development of our five-year plan, we have three control policies for activities that affect:

• water management
• land management
• management of pest plants and animals.

Yearly business plans and subregional descriptions also provide insights into the natural resources, ecological systems and key drivers across EP.

Get involved

As part of the review of the plan, we want to hear from the EP community including our youth. We’d like to know what you:

• see as the key changes that will challenge the management of soil, water, coasts and biodiversity over the next five years
• value most about EP’s landscapes
• think about the priorities where we should focus our efforts.

Find out more:

• Read the current plan and supporting documents - all found in the 'current planning documents' section.

Have your say:

• Taking our survey below to share insights and values about Eyre Peninsula’s landscape priorities and challenges.
  • Complete this survey if you are 18 years or older
  • Complete this survey if you are under 18.
• We are undertaking a number of one-on-one interviews with people from across the region. If you’d like to participate in one of these, please send your name, phone number and location to eplbadmin@sa.gov.au by September 12. Alternatively, add your name in the community survey, where prompted.
• We're hosting a minya (small) healthy Country conference and workshop to connect and share with the Aboriginal Community across the EP. The Far West Coast Aboriginal Corporation and Alinytjara Wiluṟara Landscape Board will present about healthy country planning and strategic alignment, followed by a workshop that will enable the community to have input into the Plan for the next 5 years. To be held in:
  • Port Lincoln on October 28
  • Ceduna on October 30.

Contact us on eplbadmin@sa.gov.au for more information.

What are the next steps?

Following this first stage of community consultation, the revised plan for the next five years will be drafted.

This draft will be shared via YourSAy for the second and final round of community consultation in January-February 2026 (for a 6-week period).

After this, the final draft plan will be presented to the Minister for approval, for implementation from July 2026.

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