On 19 March 2025 Council moved that the Southern Highlands Innovation Park (SHIP) Master Plan and Governance Strategy be adopted, and a Planning Proposal be initiated to seek the rezoning of the identified portion of land within the precinct from E4 General Industrial to E3 Productivity Support.
A Planning Proposal has since been prepared. This was reported to the 27 August 2025 Local Planning Panel for their consideration and to 19 November 2025 Ordinary Meeting of Council. Following the resolution of Council, the Planning Proposal was submitted to the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI). A Gateway Determination has since been issued on 12 December 2025 to progress the Planning Proposal to public exhibition.
EXHIBITION DATES: The Planning Proposal will be publicly exhibited from Monday 2 March to Monday 30 March 2026, inclusive.
LEARN MORE: The Planning Proposal and supporting documentation can be accessed via the NSW Planning Portal using the link below.
Exhibition Link: Planning Portal Proposals - Southern Highlands Innovation Park - PP-2025-1529
SUBMISSIONS
Make a Submission via the NSW Planning Portal (Preferred Method)
Submissions (these can be an objection, to support or to make a comment) must be made in writing and lodged as follows:
Make your submission via NSW Planning Portal
If you would like to make a submission on the Planning Proposal, it must be made in writing via the NSW Planning Portal during the public exhibition period by 4:30pm, Monday 30 March 2026.
Please note that any submissions received may be included in the final report to Council.
All submission makers will be notified when the Planning Proposal is being reported back to the Wingecarribee Local Planning Panel and to Council with details of how you can speak to the matter if you wish to do so. Submissions may be viewed by a third party and will be reported to Council, although they will be redacted beforehand (i.e. all identifying features removed)
Make a Submission via another method (in writing)
The preferred method to make a submission for or against a Planning Proposal is via the NSW Planning Portal website exhibition page. However, you may choose to make your submission in writing (via email, letter, or hand-delivered letter in person to the Civic Centre). Submissions made this way must also include a signed copy of our Political Donations and Gifts Declaration Form(PDF, 109KB)with your submission.
If you also answer YES on the Political Donations and Gifts Declaration Form, you will also need to complete and include our Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement(PDF, 357KB) with your submission.
Alternative submission method outside of the NSW Planning Portal include:
- By mail to Wingecarribee Shire Council, PO Box 141, Moss Vale NSW 2577
- By Participate Wingecarribee SHIP project page online submission form.
- By hand to the Civic Centre at 68 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale, during business hours.
If you would like to make a submission, it must be made in writing during the public exhibition period (2 March - 30 March 2026) and submitted by 4:30pm, Monday 30 March 2026.
All submission makers will be notified when the Planning Proposal is being reported back to the Wingecarribee Local Planning Panel and to Council with details of how you can speak to the matter if you wish to do so. Submissions may be viewed by a third party and will be reported to Council. We may publish any personal information you have included in your submission. Do not include any personal information in your submission that you do not want published
Other information or view the Planning Proposal details
A hard copy of the Planning Proposal is also available for viewing at the Civic Centre, 68 Elizabeth Street, Moss Vale between 8.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday during each week of the exhibition period (Monday 2 March to Monday 30 March 2026) and Wingecarribee Libraries (including the mobile library).
In addition, the Southern Highlands Innovation Park project page on the Participate Wingecarribee site retains the background documentation and provides a link to the public exhibition page on the NSW Planning Portal.
Visit Participate website: https://participatewingecarribee.wsc.nsw.gov.au/ship
Council has been granted delegation to exercise its local plan-making authority functions in relation to this Planning Proposal.
If you require further information, please contact our Senior Strategic Planner on 02 4868 0888 or email to Strategic.Outcomes@wsc.nsw.gov.au . Please quote reference number PP-2025-1529 in all correspondence.
Warning: A person is guilty of an offence under section 125 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 in connection with the obligations under section 147 only if the person fails to make a disclosure of a political donation or gift in accordance with section 147 that the person knows, or ought reasonably to know, was made and is required to be disclosed under section 147. The maximum penalty for any such offence is the maximum penalty under Part 6 of the Election Funding and Disclosures Act 1981 for making a false statement in a declaration of disclosures lodged under that Part. Note: The maximum penalty is currently 200 penalty units (currently $22,000) or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.