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Planning

The role of planning within Reef Plan is to:

make better use of existing planning mechanisms to improve land use and development control decisions, with resulting improvements in the quality of water flowing into the Reef
ensure the best available information supports these decisions.

Good progress has been made in this area, particularly in regional natural resource management (NRM) planning, coastal management planning and water quality improvement planning by local government. There has also been successful collaboration among research institutes to develop modelling tools and decision support systems. However, the coordination of planning and the implementation of actions on the ground within the Reef catchment is an ongoing challenge.

Last reviewed 31 August 2009

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