2016-06-07 - P&E Agenda - Item 5, Attachment 1 - Agriculture and Agricultural Land Study

On 13 June 2014, the Strategic Cropping Land Act 2011 was repealed by the Regional Planning
Interests Act 2014 (RPI Act) and the strategic cropping area is now an area of regional interest
under the RPI Act. This Act seeks to manage the impact and support coexistence of resource
activities and other regulated activities in areas of regional interest.

There are four areas of regional interests under the RPI Act:

•      a priority agricultural area (PAA)
•      a priority living area (PLA)
•      the strategic cropping area (SCA)
•      a strategic environmental area (SEA).

A PAA is a strategic area identified by the government as containing significant clusters of what are
considered to be priority agricultural land uses — high value, intensive agricultural land uses.
There is no PAA affecting Noosa Shire at this point but that could change with the next version of
the SEQ Regional Plan.




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