Planning Act - Unzoned permitted clearing of native vegetation, Northern Territory

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Metadata
Citation
Description

Dataset Status
Data Quality
Contact Information
Data Dictionary
Supplementary Information

Metadata Details:

Name:AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile

Version:1.0

Date Metadata Extracted:2025-04-14

Date Metadata Last Updated:2022-03-01

Current URL (HTML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=29977D78A7BFF131E050CD9B21441678

Current URL (XML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=xml&metadata_id=29977D78A7BFF131E050CD9B21441678

Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:29977D78A7BFF131E050CD9B21441678

Title:Planning Act - Unzoned permitted clearing of native vegetation, Northern Territory

Citation Date:2003-02-07

Date Type:creation

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security

Description

Abstract:

This polygon spatial dataset shows areas subject to all development permits issued by the consent authority (Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics or their delegate and predecessors) in accordance with the Planning Act for the purpose of clearing native vegetation on unzoned land since 2003 (when clearing controls were introduced). (Unzoned land is land that is not zoned under the NT Planning Scheme - some zones also require consent to clear native vegetation.) Each polygon is subject to the conditions of the relevant permit.

Web link to a list of approved applications: nt.gov.au/property/land-clearing/freehold-land/current-applications-and-approvals-for-freehold-land-clearing

The spatial dataset is provided for public access via NR Maps. Read Supplementary Information in this record: How to view this data in NR Maps.

ANZLIC Search Words:

boundaries

environment

farming

location

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

North Bounding Coordinate:-10

South Bounding Coordinate:-26

East Bounding Coordinate:138

West Bounding Coordinate:129

Dataset Status

Dataset ID:

Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:onGoing

Maintenance and Update Frequency:continual

Data Currency Start Date:2003-02-07

Data Currency End Date:

Access Constraint:
Download the spatial data package (contains spatial data, maps and reports) via data.nt.gov.au/

You are licensed to use the geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products.

You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement:

Supplied by the Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Copyright Northern Territory Government.

Data Quality

Lineage:Pemitted clearing areas are derived from information submitted by applicants, provided as either drawn plans, coordinates or spatial data formats. In some cases, clearing areas were altered by the consent authority before approval. All formats were converted to an ESRI file geodatabase and stored in geographics, datum GDA94.

Positional Accuracy:Polygon position was supplied by the applicant or altered by the consent authority.

Attribute Accuracy:Attributes taken from details supplied by applicants. Cadastre information relates to time of submission of planning applications. Parcels may have since been subdivided, however approved areas remain valid over new titles. Where more than one parcel relates to a planning application, polygons are labelled with the relevant parcel details.
All polygons have attribute values as described in the Data Dictionary in this metadata record.

Logical Consistency:Several polygons have some minor editing problems (slivers, topology) due to either poor digitising of proposed clearing areas or were as provided by the applicant, however these cannot be altered since they have now been approved by the consent authority. Polygons may overlap previous approved areas that have expired and new applications assessed and areas approved for clearing.

Completeness:The point of truth dataset is stored in Oracle ArcSDE is updated as applications are approved. The dataset displayed in NR Maps is updated weekly.

Contacts

Name Organisation Position Role Phone Fax Email

Data Requests Officer Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department) distributor datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Name	Organisation	Position	Role	Phone	Fax	Email
Data Requests Officer	Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security	Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department)	distributor			datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Data Dictionary

Attribute Attribute Description Possible Code Code Description

01. PERMIT_NUM Development Permit number
Example: DP06/0115

02. PERMIT_REF Development Permit Reference number
This is a unique identifier for each polygon and is a concatenation of the Permit no and the Permit Polygon no.
Example: DP06/0115-1

03. PERMITPOLY Development Permit Polygon Number
A long integer is used to describe each polygon within the Permit.
Example: 1

04. PA_NUM Planning Application Number
(also referred to as the Development Application Number)
Example: PA2005/0779

05. DATELODGED The date that the application was lodged by the applicant

06. DATEAPPROV The date that the permit was approved by consent authority

07. DATEEXPIRY The expiry date described on the permit endorsed by the consent authority.

08. LAISKEY The LAISKEY is a unique identifier that describes a parcel of land in the Northern Territory.
The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.

09. LOC_CODE The first 3 values, 000, of the LAISKEY (the unique identifier for each cadastral parcel of the Northern Territory) that describes the location type for the parcel of land as a NT Portion.
The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.

10. PARCEL The parcel number is part of the LAISKEY (the unique identifier for each cadastral parcel of the Northern Territory).
The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.

11. LOCALITY The locality name is derived from the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.

12. ST_NAME The name of the street/road for the parcel where the permitted clearing is located

13. APPLICANT The name of the applicant

14. PROPOSEUSE Describes the proposed use for the permitted clearing area as stated in the application

15. PERMIT_HA The total area (in hectares) of all polygons comprising the permit.

16. POLY_HA The area (in hectares) of a single permitted clearing polygon.

17. NOTE Additional note used when required for further description of permit area. 1 Permit extends into road reserve. Adopted parcel number is same as closest adjoining parcel.

2 Approved Development Permit Variation

3 Approved 'Application of Extension', section 59 of the Planning Act

4 Approved 'Substantial Clearing Extension', section 58(2) of the Planning Act

5 Retrospective clearing approval

18. STATUS Alias: Permit Status
This field is for department use only. It is not displayed in NR Maps. Lapsed The clearing permit has lapsed. Clearing within this polygon is no longer permitted.

Undetermined The clearing permit was issued; however, the Department has not determined if the clearing polygon remains valid.

Valid The clearing permit is valid. Clearing within this polygon is permitted.

Attribute	Attribute Description	Possible Code	Code Description
01. PERMIT_NUM	Development Permit number Example: DP06/0115
02. PERMIT_REF	Development Permit Reference number This is a unique identifier for each polygon and is a concatenation of the Permit no and the Permit Polygon no. Example: DP06/0115-1
03. PERMITPOLY	Development Permit Polygon Number A long integer is used to describe each polygon within the Permit. Example: 1
04. PA_NUM	Planning Application Number (also referred to as the Development Application Number) Example: PA2005/0779
05. DATELODGED	The date that the application was lodged by the applicant
06. DATEAPPROV	The date that the permit was approved by consent authority
07. DATEEXPIRY	The expiry date described on the permit endorsed by the consent authority.
08. LAISKEY	The LAISKEY is a unique identifier that describes a parcel of land in the Northern Territory. The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.
09. LOC_CODE	The first 3 values, 000, of the LAISKEY (the unique identifier for each cadastral parcel of the Northern Territory) that describes the location type for the parcel of land as a NT Portion. The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.
10. PARCEL	The parcel number is part of the LAISKEY (the unique identifier for each cadastral parcel of the Northern Territory). The data source of the LAISKEY is the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.
11. LOCALITY	The locality name is derived from the Digital Cadastral Database of the Northern Territory.
12. ST_NAME	The name of the street/road for the parcel where the permitted clearing is located
13. APPLICANT	The name of the applicant
14. PROPOSEUSE	Describes the proposed use for the permitted clearing area as stated in the application
15. PERMIT_HA	The total area (in hectares) of all polygons comprising the permit.
16. POLY_HA	The area (in hectares) of a single permitted clearing polygon.
17. NOTE	Additional note used when required for further description of permit area.	1	Permit extends into road reserve. Adopted parcel number is same as closest adjoining parcel.
		2	Approved Development Permit Variation
		3	Approved 'Application of Extension', section 59 of the Planning Act
		4	Approved 'Substantial Clearing Extension', section 58(2) of the Planning Act
		5	Retrospective clearing approval
18. STATUS	Alias: Permit Status This field is for department use only. It is not displayed in NR Maps.	Lapsed	The clearing permit has lapsed. Clearing within this polygon is no longer permitted.
		Undetermined	The clearing permit was issued; however, the Department has not determined if the clearing polygon remains valid.
		Valid	The clearing permit is valid. Clearing within this polygon is permitted.

Supplementary Information

Further information about clearing is available from these websites.
- denr.nt.gov.au/land-resource-management/rangelands/guidelines-and-management-plans/land-clearing-guidelines-and-management-plans
- legislation.nt.gov.au/Legislation/PLANNING-ACT

This data may be viewed by the public via NR Maps nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html
- Open folder Land Management. Tick layer Unzoned Clearing Permits. Right mouse on layer and select Set Active.
- Zoom to area of interest. Select polygons to review details in Data Results panel at bottom of screen.
- Use the search panel to find specific clearing information.

This record maintained using the NTLIS Metadata Tool

Metadata : Planning Act - Unzoned permitted clearing of native vegetation, Northern Territory