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    • Getting started
      • Who does what?
      • About our planning system
      • About the Tasmanian Planning Scheme
      • Find the planning scheme for your area
      • How the planning scheme works
      • How the planning scheme changes
      • Zones, codes and overlays
      • History of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme reform
      • Council assessment pathways
      • Exclusions from the planning scheme
      • Existing use rights
      • Acronyms
      • Key planning websites
  • Getting started
    • Planning System
      • Resource management and planning system
      • Tasmanian planning system
        • Overview
        • About the Tasmanian planning system
        • Who assesses what?
        • History of planning reforms
      • Planning legislation
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        • Existing use rights and exemptions
        • How legislation changes
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      • Draft Tasmanian planning policies
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        • Who can investigate?
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  • Planning System
    • Topics
      • Nature conservation
      • Climate change
      • Housing
      • Building
      • Rural planning
      • Waste management
      • Natural hazards
  • Topics
    • Have your say
      • How to have your say
      • Your personal information
      • Currently open consultations
      • Featured initiatives
      • Consultations: Major projects
      • Consultations: State Planning Provisions Amendments
      • Consultations: LUPAA Amendments
      • Consultations: Strategies and Policies
      • Consultations: Housing Land Supply Orders
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If you're new to planning in Tasmania, these pages give you the basic information to get started. The Planning System section on the Home Page builds on our Getting Started information.

We have a guide (PDF 1.5 MB) to this website that you can download.

  • Who does what?
  • About our planning system
  • About the Tasmanian Planning Scheme
  • Find the planning scheme for your area
  • How the planning scheme works
  • How the planning scheme changes
  • Zones, codes and overlays
  • History of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme reform
  • Council assessment pathways
  • Exclusions from the planning scheme
  • Existing use rights
  • Acronyms
  • Key planning websites
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Department of State Growth
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144 Macquarie St
Hobart TAS 7000

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Department of State Growth
GPO Box 536
Hobart TAS 7001

Phone: 1300 703 977
Email: spo@stateplanning.tas.gov.au

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