The Town Planning and Development Act 1928 was an Act of the Western Australian Parliament which laid down specific controls over planning at a metropolitan and local level as well as establishing more general controls over the subdivision of land.
The Act was based on earlier British legislation.
[1] It took 13 years for the Act to pass through the parliament.
[2] In 1929, Sydney-based planner David L. Davidson was appointed the first Town Planning Commissioner tasked with implementing the act.
[3] The Act provided for the following powers and functions: This article related to Australian law is a stub.