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This page provides access to the Harbour Trust's regulations and founding legislation as well as our statutory plans and other strategic documents.

Other resources located on this page include annual reports, meeting minutes and notes, regulatory statements and a series of policies and procedures – for example, our Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Policy, Public Interest Disclosure (PID) Procedures and our standard supplier terms and conditions.

 

Meeting notes: General Community Advisory Committee (CAC)
 Meeting Notes: General CAC out-of-session meetings
 Meeting Notes: Sub Base Platypus CAC
Meeting Notes: First Nations Advisory Group
Meeting Notes: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Advisory Group

Note: The Harbour Trust is governed by the members of the Trust, a body appointed by the Minister for the Environment. Minutes for Trust member meetings that have occurred within the past five years are available below. Meeting held prior to this time are available on request (see: Contact Us).


See also: Our organisation


Harbour Trust planning framework

The Harbour Trust’s statutory and non-statutory plans articulate the vision for its protected sites and outline how this vision will be implemented.

Established in accordance with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust Act 2001, the Harbour Trust’s Comprehensive Plan is a broad strategic plan that sets out the vision for its sites and provides a framework for their ongoing use.

The Comprehensive Plan is supported by more detailed management plans that prescribe desired outcomes for specific sites or buildings, including suitable uses and how each site’s heritage values are proposed to be interpreted.

Whilst not a statutory requirement, master plans put forward a future vision of place. Proposals for implementing master plans must address the statutory plans and would be subject to a detailed planning assessment.

To view the comprehensive, management and master plans, visit: Planning and permits.

Corporate plan (2025 to 2029)

Additionally, the Harbour Trust delivers against commitments outlined in its Corporate Plan. This resource, renewed each year, outlines the agency’s plans and priorities for the next four years. 

 

Strategy for Empowering First Nations Peoples and Communities 

In 2025, on advice from the First Nations Advisory Group, the Harbour Trust finalised a First Nations Strategy that sets out our commitments and responsibilities when working with First Nations peoples, cultures and heritage, and Country.

 

Environmental Management Plans

Stakeholder Engagement Strategy

Published in 2022, our Stakeholder Engagement Strategy outlines our approach to engaging with a diverse set of community stakeholders. This strategy is assisting us to fulfil our vision, which includes making our protected places accessible to diverse audiences, amplifying their heritage values through storytelling and – through their conservation, remediation, and adaptive reuse – fostering a sense of place and belonging.


For further information, visit: Community and committees


Emissions Reduction Plan

In June 2024, the Harbour Trust approved an Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) for its own operations, in accordance with the Government’s ‘Net Zero in Government Operations Strategy’. The ERP sets out a range of practical measures for the Harbour Trust to achieve net zero emissions by 2030.


Heritage Strategy

As required by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 the Harbour Trust has prepared a Heritage Strategy to provide for the protection of the Commonwealth Heritage places under its control. The Harbour Trust’s current Heritage Strategy was endorsed by the Minister for the Environment and Energy’s delegate in 2016.

 


Public Interest Disclosures (PID)

The Public Interest Disclosures Act 2013 provides a framework for current and former public officials to make disclosures about disclosable conduct. For more information, see the Harbour Trust’s Public Interest Disclosure (PID) Procedures: 

As outlined in the PID Procedures, the Harbour Trust’s current Principal Officer and Authorised Officers are:

Principal Officer:

  • Janet Carding (Executive Director)


Authorised Officers:

  • Daniel Sealey (Director, Planning)

  • Graham Izod (Director, Assets and Parklands)

 

Helpful links

If you are interested in the Harbour Trust's key plans, strategies, reports and statements, you may find the below links useful.
Planning framework
Planning and permits
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