Far North Regional Plan
Have your say on the Far North Regional Plan.
What's being decided?
The State Planning Commission (the Commission) has released the Far North Regional Plan (the Plan) and want to hear from community, councils and industry on how we sustainably prepare for future growth.
The Plan will address:
- population growth by ensuring land supply
- managing appropriate expansion of the region’s towns and smaller settlements and providing a range of available housing options near existing employment lands
- health and community services
- diverse housing options to meet the needs of an ageing population, attract skilled workers, and provide for single-person households, seasonal workers, and tourists.
The Plan also focuses on preserving the region’s cultural heritage and natural resources, actions to protect biodiversity, and ways to boost the region’s economy by ensuring land, infrastructure and houses needed for growth are in place.
Background
The Commission, with support from Planning and Land Use Services (PLUS), is currently preparing six new country regional plans for South Australia:
- Kangaroo Island
- Yorke Peninsula and Mid North
- Eyre and Western
- Far North
- Limestone Coast
- Murray Mallee
These plans play an important role in guiding sustainable growth by identifying land use and long-term infrastructure over a 15 to 30-year period. They outline where new housing and employment areas will be located, how services will be delivered, and what infrastructure is needed while exploring different growth scenarios.
In 2023, an online Visioning Workshop was held to gather insights to support the initial development of the Plan. Stakeholders unable to attend the workshops were invited to provide feedback through a survey hosted on the YourSAy platform. You can read more about the community’s insights in the What We Heard Report.
The information collected during the workshops and from the YourSAy survey have informed the development of the Plan.
Get involved
Find out more:
- read the Far North Regional Plan (for the best user experience, the Regional Planning Portal is best accessed by using a laptop or desktop computer)
- read the Far North Regional Plan Summary
- read the Easy Read guide
- take a look at our Fact Sheet
- take a look at our FAQs
- view the proposal to initiate document
- review the Far North Regional Plan engagement plan
- read the Far North Visioning Workshop - What We Heard Report
- view the map of the Far North planning region.
Have your say by:
- taking our survey
- filling out our Easy Read survey
- filling out the online submission form
- register for an information session
- email a submission to plansasubmissions@sa.gov.au (subject: Submission Far North Regional Plan)
- post your submission to:
Attention: Growth Management Team
Planning and Land Use Services
Department for Housing and Urban Development
GPO Box 1815
Adelaide SA 5001
Please note that written submissions must be received by no later than 5:00pm on Wednesday 7 May 2025. All written submissions received will be made publicly available on the PlanSA portal at the conclusion of the consultation period.
What are the next steps?
All feedback will be considered, with the updated Plan being provided to the State Planning Commission for endorsement.
The final Plan will be released late 2025 and will be fully digital and accessible via the Regional Planning Portal.
