Land Use Planning
Ontario’s land use planning system gives municipalities the major role in planning decisions. The ministry identifies and protects provincial interests, and supports infrastructure planning, environmental protection, economic development and safe communities.
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Changes to the land use planning and appeal system
Beginning April 3, 2018, Ontario’s land use planning and appeal system has changed. The new Local Planning Appeal Tribunal has been established as the provincewide appeal body for land use planning appeals.
Planning and Application Resource Centre
Welcome to Planning and Application Resource Centre (PARC), your source for information and tools related to the One Window land use planning service in Ontario.
The One Window provincial planning service is a collaboration of several provincial ministries.
The resource centre will help you to:
- Obtain information on the provincial Land Use Planning system,
- Access Planning application approvals and formswhere the ministry is the planning approval authority,
- Find Land Use Planning resources, guidance materials and tools that may help you prepare your land use planning application.
Popular Topics
Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan
A plan established in 2002 to provide land use and resource management direction for the 190,000 hectares of land and water within the Moraine.
Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe
The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe was created in 2006 to guide how and where growth should occur, protect farm land and green spaces, and maximize infrastructure investments in the fast-growing, diverse region.
Ontario’s Greenbelt is an area of permanently protected green space, farmland, forests,
Places to Grow is a comprehensive growth management initiative that takes a strategic, long-range and integrated approach to manage growth and build complete communities.
The Provincial Policy Statement provides direction on matters of provincial interest related to land use planning and
Growth Plan for Northern Ontario
The Growth Plan for Northern Ontario, 2011, is a 25-year plan that aims to strengthen the region’s long-term sustainability and prosperity.
More in Land Use Planning:
- Brownfields Ontario
- Central Pickering Development Plan
- Citizens' Guides to Land-use Planning
- Development approval roundtable: action plan
- Greenbelt Protection
- Growth Plan
- Office of the Provincial Land and Development Facilitator
- Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC)
- Parkway Belt West Plan
- Places to Grow
- Planning and application resource centre
- Provincial Policy Statement
- The Oak Ridges Moraine - Background
- Changes to the land use planning and appeal system
- Executive Summary of the Advisory Panel Report
- Related Legislation