Event Outline
2025 was a massive year for planning and environmental reform, both federally and in NSW. Following the passing of significant legislative amendments to key environment and planning legislation in NSW to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) and federally to the Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), join Anneliese Korber, Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, as she shepherds us through the key amendments to each Act and when they are likely to commence, and discusses what further changes may come throughout 2026.
Speaker
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Anneliese Korber, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
Anneliese is an Environment & Planning lawyer with over 22 years' experience based in our Sydney office. Her practise covers a range of specialised areas of the environment and planning space.
Anneliese regularly advises her clients in complex planning and development matters, including the State significant development process. Having worked closely with numerous NSW Government departments for over 20 years, Anneliese is uniquely placed to advise in this area. The crossover between planning law, environmental law and contamination is also an area of focus for Anneliese that has played out across her many projects for both private and public agencies.
The compulsory acquisition space is another area of specialty for Anneliese, having acted for most of the major NSW Government acquiring authorities over the course of her career. In particular, Anneliese has recently acted for the NSW transport agencies, being involved in the compulsory acquisition of the St Peters Interchange site for the WestConnex project which resulted in the largest claim in Australia's history of over $600 million. Anneliese regularly advises both landowners and NSW Government departments in the resumption law area enabling her to bring a unique perspective to any acquisition.
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Krista MacPherson, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
Krista MacPherson is an environment and planning lawyer based in Sydney. She has over 10 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of environmental and planning law, including major projects and regulated sites. Krista has extensive experience acting for a range of public and private sector clients in planning, environmental, heritage and compulsory acquisition matters. Krista has a broad practice in advising both Commonwealth and State Government clients, and private proponents on a broad range of strategic planning and regulatory matters. She had a broad transactional and advisory practice, but is also an experienced litigator. |
Facilitator
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Liz Densley RPIA (Fellow), Founder, Eight Mile Planning
Liz is a town planner with 25 years' professional experience in urban and regional planning in NSW. Having spent the large part of her career in Local Government, Liz moved to join Elton Consulting in 2016 and has this year founded Eight Mile Planning.
Liz is a passionate planner with expertise across land use policy, strategic and statutory planning working closely with both private and public sector clients.
Based in Mudgee in regional NSW, Liz has a particular interest in regional growth and development and delivering a planning framework which can be tailored and is relevant across the diverse jurisdictions to which it applies.
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