The Council has received an offer to enter into a Voluntary Planning Agreement (VPA) known as the draft Sovereign Hills Estate Planning Agreement 2025. This agreement aims to consolidate the following existing planning agreements:

• The Sovereign Hills Estate Voluntary Planning Agreement
• The Area 13 Environmental Land Management Voluntary Planning Agreement
• The Area 13 Environmental Land Management Voluntary Planning Agreement for Lot 71 in Deposited Plan 1061516
• The Sovereign Hills Estate Highway Works Voluntary Planning Agreement

The intent of the Draft Planning Agreement is to:

• Require monetary Development Contributions of a specified minimum amount to be made towards community, cultural, and emergency services, as well as open space, roads, and administration.
• Mandate the Developer to carry out specified works to provide community and cultural facilities, services, open space, roads, and other public purposes.
• Require the Owner to dedicate specified land to the Council where some works will be located.
• Allow offsets against specified monetary Development Contributions, taking into account the material public benefits provided to the Council by the Developer and the Owner under the agreement.
• Mandate that the Council applies monetary Development Contributions towards the specified purposes for which they were made, consistent with the principles of Section 7.11 contributions, as identified in the Planning Agreement.
• Impose obligations on the Developer regarding the execution of specified works, the transfer of those works to the Council, and the rectification of any defects in those works.
• Require the Developer and Owner to provide security for legal costs to the Council, should it need to enforce the terms of the agreement.
• Mandate the Developer and Owner to grant the Council a charge over specified land as security for the agreement's performance.
• Require the agreement to be registered on the title to the land.
• Impose restrictions on the parties regarding the transfer of the land or any part of it or the assignment of an interest under the agreement.
• Require the developer to establish and pay a contribution for the management of environmental management land(s).

Additionally, notice is given of the revocation of the following agreements: the Sovereign Hills Estate Planning Agreement, the Area 13 Environmental Land Management Planning Agreement, the Area 13 Environmental Land Management Planning Agreement for Lot 71 in Deposited Plan 1061516, and the Sovereign Hills Estate Highway Works Planning Agreement. Some of these agreements have been fully performed, while others have been partly performed.

How to get involved

• Share your thoughts via the online survey
• Email communityengagement.communications@pmhc.nsw.gov.au
• Write to:

Port Macquarie Hastings Council

Liveable Communities

PO Box 84

Port Macquarie NSW 2444

All submissions must be received by 5pm on Wednesday, 21 May 2025.