New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

ARMIDALE DUMARESQ LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2008 - REG 39

39 Development on land in riparian buffer areas

(1) In this clause, a "riparian buffer area" means land:

(a) within 50 metres of a permanent waterbody, or

(b) within 20 metres of an intermittent waterbody.

(2) Consent must not be granted to carry out development on land in a riparian buffer area, unless the consent authority is satisfied that adequate measures have been, or will be, taken to offset the likely effects of the development on stream bank instability, stream water quality and aquatic habitat.

(3) Adequate measures referred to in subclause (2) include (if practicable):

(a) retention of endemic vegetation,

(b) new plantings comprising endemic riparian vegetation, including emergent vegetation,

(c) replacing exotic vegetation with endemic vegetation,

(d) protecting instream vegetation, including trees, snags, macrophytes and algae,

(e) keeping hard surfaces, such as cycle ways and footpaths, to a minimum and constructing these surfaces from permeable material, and

(f) staging development so that improvements to the riparian buffer areas are in place and acting to minimise erosion and runoff prior to carrying out the remainder of the development.