Changes to protection regime for Barossa, McLaren Vale

Planning Minister John Rau has introduced a new interim Development Plan Amendment (DPA) to protect the Barossa and McLaren Vale districts from urban sprawl. Mr Rau said the new DPA – which contains planning rules for the districts – provided revised controls to protect the districts in response to community concerns about overly restricted development in the former interim DPA. The interim DPA will ease some of the restrictive development requirements introduced last year, while still maintaining protection from urban sprawl, reports the Stock Journal.