A staff report summarised progress to date and reasons for delays, and presented a revised schedule.

While many milestones have been met, the report states the reasons for delays as an underestimation of complexity of some of the tasks, limited resources and difficulties in extracting rural land holding data from Council's data base due to different data recording systems of the former councils making up Palerang, delays in obtaining data from external sources, delays in the finalisation of the Sydney-Canberra Corridor Regional Strategy and delays in obtaining definite advice from Department concerning the use of average lot size provisions.

Further the report states "Councillors have been unable to consider any aspects of the draft plan due to pecuniary interests. Exemptions under section 458 of the Local Government Act have been sought, but the applications have not yet been determined by the Minister."

The Department has still not provided formal advice on whether the new LEP will be able to include average lot size provisions in rural areas (as have applied in the former Yarrowlumla part of Palerang since 1995 and in the former Cooma-Monaro part of Palerang since 1999).

The Department of Planning's contribution to the project under the Planning Reform Fund has now been fully expended and the cost of the new LEP is being funded through the Planning and Environmental Services Division budget.

While 26 councils shared in $1.4 million from the sixth round of the Planning Reform Fund, announced by the NSW Minister for Planning, Kristina Keneally last week, Palerang did not receive further funding.

The schedule now expects the LEP to go on public exhibition in February 2010 and to reach Gazettal in July 2010. By then it will be almost 20 years since Braidwood has had a new LEP - the Tallaganda LEP 1991.