Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2021
218AMatters to be included in annual reports of councils
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218A Matters to be included in annual reports of councils
218A Matters to be included in annual reports of councils
(1) A council must disclose, in its annual report, how development contributions and development levies have been used or expended under each contributions plan.
(2) The annual report must contain the following details for each project for which the contributions or levies have been used or expended—
(a) the project identification number and description,
(b) the kind of public amenity or public service to which the project relates,
(c) the amount of monetary contributions or levies used or expended on the project,
(d) the percentage of the cost of the project funded by contributions or levies,
(e) the amounts expended that have been temporarily borrowed from money to be expended for another purpose under the same or another contributions plan,
(f) the value of the following used for the project—
(i) land,
(ii) material public benefit other than money or land,
(g) whether the project is complete.
(3) The annual report must also contain—
(a) the total value of all contributions and levies received during the period covered by the annual report, and
(b) the total value of all contributions and levies expended during the period covered by the annual report.
(4) The information required to be included in the annual report must also be published on the NSW planning portal.
s 218A: Ins 2021 (759), Sch 8[8].