FAQs

Section 193 of the Local Government Act 1999 (the Act) states that all land owned by a council or under a council’s care control and management, other than roads, is classified as community land unless the council has resolved to exclude it from community land. 

Some operational land owned by Council, such as depots and offices, has been excluded from community land and is not subject to a community land management plan.

The Act and the Local Government (General) Regulations 2013 set out a council’s requirements in relation to community land. A council must prepare and adopt a management plan or management plans for its community land if the land is, or is to be, occupied under a lease or licence or the land has been, or is to be, specifically modified or adapted for the benefit or enjoyment of the community. 

The large majority of the community land of Adelaide Hills Council must be subject to a community land management plan. Section 196 of the Act states that a management plan must:

• identify the land to which it applies 
• state the purpose for which the land is held by the council 
• state the council's objectives, policies (if any) and proposals for the management of the land 
• state performance targets and how the council proposes to measure its performance against its objectives and performance targets

Anyone is entitled to provide feedback via a written submission.

All submissions need to be provided to Council by 5pm, Tuesday 11 March 2025.