Water Sensitive Urban Design Strategy for Darwin Harbour

In order to manage the impacts to Darwin Harbour, particularly from new development and re-development areas, the Northern Territory Government has identified that the WSUD approach should be applied in all new development zones in the Darwin Harbour catchment. To assist in the adoption of WSUD, the Department of Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts (NRETA), with funding from the Australian Government Coastal Catchments Initiative (CCI) program, are developing a WSUD Strategy for Darwin Harbour. The Strategy is to create an enabling environment to ensure commitment to water cycle and stormwater management through the development of a WSUD framework linking: