Welcome to the Australian Local Food System Policy Database. This is a collection of policies from New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian local governments that relate to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
For further information about using the database and how it was created see How to use the database. You can search the database by using the fields below. Domain refers to eight broad categories under which various topics are situated. The domains and topics are based on a framework of recommendations for local government action on creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system (also located on the ‘How to use the database’ page linked above).
To cite the database: Reeve B, Carrad A, Rose N, Charlton K & Aguirre-Bielschowsky I (2021) Australian Local Food System Policy Database. Available at: https://law-food-systems.sydney.edu.au/policy-database (access date).
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| Document title | Relevant text in the policy | Domain | Topic | State | Local Government name | Council type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals / Birds – LGA Section 124 Order No. 18 | Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals / Birds – LGA Section 124 Order No. 18 | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Federation | Regional |
| LOCAL ORDERS POLICY – KEEPING OF ANIMALS Policy 14/2017-2020 DATE • Ordinary Meeting of Council 28 | KEEPING OF ANIMALS | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | The Hills Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals | Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Eurobodalla | Regional |
| Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals | Local Orders Policy – Keeping of Animals | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Georges River | Metropolitan |
| Local Orders Policy For Keeping Of Animals / Birds | Purpose The purpose of this policy is to specify the criteria which the Council will take into consideration in determining whether or not to give an order under Section 124 and 125 as those orders relate to the keeping of animals and birds. | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Greater Hume | Regional |
| LOCAL ORDERS POLICY FOR THE KEEPING OF ANIMALS | LOCAL ORDERS POLICY FOR THE KEEPING OF ANIMALS | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Dungog | Regional |
| Local Orders Policy No. 1 Guidelines for the Keeping of Animals For Domestic Purposes | Local Orders Policy No. 1 Guidelines for the Keeping of Animals For Domestic Purposes | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Glen Innes Severn | Regional |
| Local Planning Strategy | . Ensure sufficient housing diversity to meet community needs. The LPS aims to deliver a range of dwelling types within a defined area. More diversity means greater housing choice for a range of households. This can also create more affordable housing options | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Newcastle | Regional |
| Local Planning Strategy | 4. Facilitate affordable living. Increasing the density of housing in existing urban areas can reduce housing costs because of savings in infrastructure, reduced lot sizes and greater choice in dwelling types. Importantly housing located close to work and play may reduce living costs such as transport, promoting affordable living | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Newcastle | Regional |
| Local Planning Strategy | Encourage affordable housing options through a diversity of housing in proximity to the university. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Newcastle | Regional |
| Local Planning Strategy | Investigate incentive clause within the Newcastle LEP 2012 to facilitate affordable housing. In particular investigate a clause that provides bonus development yield in return for a proportion of the development being set aside for ‘affordable housing’. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Newcastle | Regional |
| Local Planning Strategy | The quality of Jesmond as a place to live will be enhanced by new development. Jesmond will house a diversity of affordable housing options that takes advantage of the location. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Newcastle | Regional |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Enviro-Works Sutherland Shire Council assisted in the development of the Earthworks program in 1999 and continued to run it for the past 8 years. These courses were quite popular but a review was carried out with residents who agreed that there was a need to update and broaden the course content. Enviro-Works now covers a broader range of sustainability topics including ecological footprint, lifecycle analysis, detoxing your home, energy and water efficiency. The traditional waste related topics including composting, worm farming, waste reduction, recycling, buying recycled and visits to the landfill and materials recovery facility are still included in the course. The course is faster paced and has received very positive feedback from residents. Short courses are available for up to three hours. A longer course that provides all the topics previously listed runs over five weeks including two practical sessions. Residents are offered discounted products such as compost bins and worm farms to implement the practices they have learnt in the course at home. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Action: 3. Continue to run free Enviro-Works courses and monitor benefits 4. Consider options for improving use of the community garden and council nursery | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Consider options for improving use of the community garden and council nursery | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Action: 3. Continue to run free Enviro-Works courses and monitor benefits 4. Consider options for improving use of the community garden and council nursery | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Consider options for improving use of the community garden and council nursery | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Enviro-Works Sutherland Shire Council assisted in the development of the Earthworks program in 1999 and continued to run it for the past 8 years. These courses were quite popular but a review was carried out with residents who agreed that there was a need to update and broaden the course content. Enviro-Works now covers a broader range of sustainability topics including ecological footprint, lifecycle analysis, detoxing your home, energy and water efficiency. The traditional waste related topics including composting, worm farming, waste reduction, recycling, buying recycled and visits to the landfill and materials recovery facility are still included in the course. The course is faster paced and has received very positive feedback from residents. Short courses are available for up to three hours. A longer course that provides all the topics previously listed runs over five weeks including two practical sessions. Residents are offered discounted products such as compost bins and worm farms to implement the practices they have learnt in the course at home. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Waste avoidance and reduction Sutherland Shire Council has adopted a number of infrastructure, policy and education initiatives to encourage reduction of waste to landfill. Infrastructure: Restricting households to 120 litres garbage capacity Provision of up to two 240 litre recycling and green waste bins per household Free woodchipping service Subsidised composters and worm farms | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Enviro-Works Sutherland Shire Council assisted in the development of the Earthworks program in 1999 and continued to run it for the past 8 years. These courses were quite popular but a review was carried out with residents who agreed that there was a need to update and broaden the course content. Enviro-Works now covers a broader range of sustainability topics including ecological footprint, lifecycle analysis, detoxing your home, energy and water efficiency. The traditional waste related topics including composting, worm farming, waste reduction, recycling, buying recycled and visits to the landfill and materials recovery facility are still included in the course. The course is faster paced and has received very positive feedback from residents. Short courses are available for up to three hours. A longer course that provides all the topics previously listed runs over five weeks including two practical sessions. Residents are offered discounted products such as compost bins and worm farms to implement the practices they have learnt in the course at home. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Sutherland Shire Council is not considering the feasibility of a separate food waste collection however as part of the resource recovery options food waste processing may be considered. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Waste Management Plan | Waste avoidance and reduction Sutherland Shire Council has adopted a number of infrastructure, policy and education initiatives to encourage reduction of waste to landfill. Infrastructure: Restricting households to 120 litres garbage capacity Provision of up to two 240 litre recycling and green waste bins per household Free woodchipping service Subsidised composters and worm farms Policy Cost for additional garbage capacity Lobbying for extended producer responsibility Education Promotion of Avoid, Reuse, Recycle, Recover Enviro-Works Courses Promotion of no junk mail stickers, no plastic bags and sustainable purchasing. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Sutherland Shire | Metropolitan |
| Local Weed Management Plan | Local Weed Management Plan | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Snowy Monaro | Regional |
| Loddon Shire Council Annual Report 2018/19 | Food Safety Indicator: Health and safety Measure: Critical and major non-compliance notifications Computation: Number of critical non-compliance notifications and major non-compliance notifications about a food premises followed up/Number of critical non-compliance notifications and major non-compliance notifications about food premises x100 | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Loddon | Regional |
| LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLAN | Continue with the 100% differential for general-farm properties; | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Mount Alexander | Regional |
| LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLAN | Food Safety Provision of food safety services to the community including registrations, education, monitoring, inspections and compliance Mount Alexander Similar Councils All Councils Percentage of required food safety assessments undertaken Cost of food safety service per premises Percentage of critical and major non-compliance outcome notifications followed up by council 0 89.00% 0 0 $306.02 67 .00% 89.95% 89.14% $522.42 83.88% $574.19 89.90% Some food premises have works due beyond the reporting period and therefore have not been followed up at this time. | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | Victoria | Mount Alexander | Regional |
| Long Term Financial Plan 2019-20 to 2028-29 | Council distinguishes between the different purposes for which properties are used – commercial/industrial properties are rated at 150% of the residential value, whereas farming properties are at 70% of the residential value. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Yarra Ranges | Metropolitan |
| Long Term Financial Plan 2019-20 to 2028-29 | Differential rates will be applied to ensure appropriate allocation of rates considering the use of land and will include; residential land, vacant sub-standard land, farm land, commercial land and industrial land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Yarra Ranges | Metropolitan |
| Long Term Financial Plan 2019-20 to 2028-29 | Farm land is rated at a lower amount to encourage the continuation of farming pursuits on rural land. | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Yarra Ranges | Metropolitan |
| Long term financial plan 2019/20 – 2028/29 | Dry Land Farming Rate a. Objective – The differential rate is to help reflect the increased difficulty in accessing the full range of Council services that dry land farming properties face, the disproportionate increase in property values over the last five years and the increased risk of seasonal income variations than faced by other farming properties b. Types and classes of land – Farmland without access to irrigation infrastructure primarily used for broadacre cropping and sheep production within Australia Valuation Property Classification Codes (AVPC) of 510, 520, 523, 524 or 530 c. Geographic location – Anywhere in the municipality d. Use of land – Broadacre cropping and sheep production with AVPC Codes of 510, 520, 523, 524 or 530 e. Planning scheme zoning – Farm land f. Types of buildings – Any or none g. Rate – The rate is set 20 per cent below the General Rate | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | Victoria | Swan Hill | Regional |