New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BLUE MOUNTAINS LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2005 - REG 134

134 Crown development and public utilities

(1) Nothing in this plan shall be construed as restricting or prohibiting or enabling the Council to restrict or prohibit:

(a) the carrying out of development of any description specified in this clause, or

(b) the use of existing buildings of the Crown by the Crown.

(2) The carrying out by persons carrying on railway undertakings on land comprised in their undertakings of:

(a) any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, works and plant, and

(b) the erection within the limits of a railway station of buildings for any purpose,

but excluding:

(c) the construction of new railways, railway stations and bridges over roads, and

(d) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway undertaking purposes outside the limits of a railway station and the reconstruction or alteration, so as materially to affect their design, of railway stations or bridges, and

(e) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road, and

(f) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway purposes where such buildings have direct access to a public place.

(3) The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being water, sewerage, drainage, electricity or gas undertakings, of any of the following development, being development required for the purpose of their undertakings:

(a) development of any description at or below the surface of the ground,

(b) the installation of any plant inside a building or the installation or erection within the premises of a generating station or substation established before the appointed day of any plant or other structures or erections required in connection with the station or substation,

(c) the installation or erection of any plant or other structures or erections by way of addition to or replacement or extension of plant or structures or erections already installed or erected, including the installation in an electrical transmission line of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housing, but not including the erection of overhead lines for the supply of electricity or pipes above the surface of the ground for the supply of water, or the installation of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housings of stone, concrete or brickworks,

(d) the provision of overhead service lines in pursuance of any statutory power to provide a supply of electricity,

(e) the erection of service reservoirs on land acquired or in process of being acquired for the purpose before the appointed day, provided reasonable notice of the proposed erection is given to the Council,

(f) any other development, except:

(i) the erection of buildings, the installation or erection of plant or other structures or erections and the reconstruction or alteration, so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, of buildings, or

(ii) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

(4) The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being water transport undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings, of any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by water, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, buildings, wharves, works and plant required for that purpose, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or

(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to road.

(5) The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being wharf or river undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings, of any development required for the purposes of shipping or in connection with the embarking, loading, discharging or transport of passengers, livestock or goods at a wharf or the movement of traffic by a railway forming part of the undertaking, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, buildings, works and plant for those purposes, except:

(a) the construction of bridges, the erection of any other buildings, and the reconstruction or alteration of bridges or of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or

(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

(6) The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being air transport undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings within the boundaries of any aerodrome, of any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by air, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, buildings, wharves, works and plant required for that purpose, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or

(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

(7) The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being road transport undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings, of any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by road, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of buildings, works and plant required for that purpose, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or

(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

(8) The carrying out of any development required in connection with the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance or repair of any road, except the widening, realignment or relocation of such road.

(9) The carrying out of any forestry work by the Forestry Commission, School Forest Trust or Community Forest Authorities empowered under relevant Acts to undertake afforestation, roading, protection, cutting and marketing of timber, and other forestry purposes under such Acts or upon any Crown land temporarily reserved from sale as a timber reserve under the Forestry Act 1916 .

(10) The carrying out by a rural lands protection board of any development required for the improvement and maintenance of travelling stock and water reserves, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or purposes, and

(b) any development designed to change the use or purpose of any such reserve.

(11) The carrying out or causing to be carried out by the Council, where engaged in flood mitigation works, or by the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources, of any work for the purposes of soil conservation, irrigation, afforestation, reafforestation, flood mitigation, water conservation or river improvement in pursuance of the provisions of the Water Act 1912 , the Water Management Act 2000 , the Farm Water Supplies Act 1946 , or the Rivers and Foreshores Improvement Act 1948 , except:

(a) the erection of buildings, and installation or erection of plant or other structures or erections and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect the design or external appearance thereof, and

(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.