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Priority Agricultural Area (PAA) as identified within the Central Queensland, Darling Downs, South East Queensland and Cape York Regional Plans. Priority Agricultural Area (PAA) as at August 2017.Priority Agricultural Areas (PAAs) are strategic areas identified on a regional scale that contain significant clusters of what are considered to be the region’s high value, intensive agricultural land uses. Within these areas, these special agricultural land areas will be given additional protection from incompatible resource activities. PAAs have been introduced to protect: proven productive agricultural areas, agricultural land uses with significant infrastructure investment, agricultural land uses that have the potential to be significantly impacted by resource activities and have limited scope to modify their agricultural practices in response to these impacts. The PAAs are prescribed within the Regional Planning Interests Regulation 2014 or within a Regional Plan. |