Update: Future Living Code Amendment now finalised

Part 2 of the Future Living Code Amendment has now been adopted by the Minister for Planning.

The Minister divided the Code amendment into two parts, adopting Part 1 on 26 April 2025 and Part 2 on 26 August 2025.

• Part 1 – introduces new policies into the Planning and Design Code (including the new land use definition, new Co-located Housing Overlay, and amendments to the Established Neighbourhood Zone, overlays and general development policies)
• Part 2 – introduces where the Co-located Housing Overlay will apply to the Established Neighbourhood Zone.

Following the six participating councils’ consideration of the approved policy, the new Co-located Housing Overlay has been applied to the Established Neighbourhood Zone of the following local government areas:

• City of Unley
• Town of Walkerville
• City of Campbelltown
• Alexandrina Council
• City of Burnside – only where the Historic Area Overlay also applies in the Established Neighbourhood Zone, as requested by the council.

The overlay has not been applied in the City of Prospect.

Now that Part 2 has been adopted, the Code amendment will take effect when deployed into the Planning and Design Code. Once in effect, development applications for co-located housing can then be lodged and assessed in these areas.

Further documents including a how to guide for co-located housing and co-located housing scheme description/by-laws templates will be published on the PlanSA website once the Code amendment is deployed into the Code.