New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BOMBALA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1990 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to consolidate existing environmental planning instruments and to provide flexible planning controls to assist the council in its administration of planning,

(b) to enable the council to prepare development control plans to introduce more detailed policies and guidelines,

(c) to protect prime crop and pasture land for agricultural use and to maintain and promote commercial agriculture,

(d) to recognise the role of the main villages in the Shire,

(e) to provide a range of housing opportunities, including rural residential development in the Shire,

(f) to ensure that development does not have the effect of placing financial burdens on ratepayers, particularly in relation to road upgrading and maintenance,

(g) to ensure that development occurs in a manner which reflects and respects the opinions of the rural community,

(h) to ensure that development occurs in a manner which minimises risks due to environmental hazards, and minimises risks to important elements of the physical environment,

(i) to provide opportunities for the expansion of the tourism industry,

(j) to promote the development of industry in the Shire, while ensuring that such development is located and carried out in a manner that minimises nuisance to residents, and

(k) to conserve the environmental heritage of the Shire.

(2) The objectives of the zones adopted by this plan for the purpose of achieving the aims in subclause (1) are set out in relation to those zones in the Table to clause 9.