Meeting SDAP State code 16 requirements when applying to clear native vegetation
The State Development Assessment Provisions (SDAP) provide assessment benchmarks for development applications involving the State Assessment and Referral Agency (SARA).
Guidance material has been developed to help prospective applicants and the broader community understand how a development application involving native vegetation clearing should address the requirements of the SDAP State code 16.
These documents are not statutory documents and are not intended to be exhaustive. They provide supplementary information only and are designed to be read in conjunction with the SDAP State code 16.
Complete guide
Download the complete SDAP State code 16 guide .
Parts of the guide
Alternatively, you can download only the parts that are relevant to your development application type and clearing purpose.
- Public safety, relevant infrastructure activities or Integrated Planning Act approval: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Extractive industry: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Coordinated project – agriculture: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Coordinated project – extractive industry: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Coordinated project – all other purposes: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Material change of use or reconfiguring a lot – no clearing: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Material change of use or reconfiguring a lot – clearing limited to existing exempt clearing work: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Material change of use or reconfiguring a lot – all other purposes: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Necessary environmental clearing: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Control non-native plants or declared pests: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Encroachment: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Fodder harvesting: SDAP State code 16 guide
- Managing thickened vegetation: SDAP State code 16 guide