New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CAMPBELLTOWN (URBAN AREA) LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2002 - REG 2

2 Aims and objectives

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to provide controls on development for the urban area of the City of Campbelltown in a local environmental plan which consolidates and simplifies existing controls applying in that area, and

(b) to establish a broad framework of controls and allow the opportunity for more detailed provisions relating to specific types of development or specific areas to be provided by development control plans, and

(c) to promote the objectives of the Act and, in particular, to maintain and enhance the amenity of the urban area of the City of Campbelltown.

(2) The objectives of this plan are:

(a) to modify existing controls on development where necessary to gain uniformity in controls across the urban area of the City of Campbelltown, and

(b) to protect areas from inappropriate development, and

(c) to maintain and improve the opportunities for appropriate commercial and industrial development in those parts of the urban area of the City of Campbelltown identified as suitable for those purposes, and

(d) to maintain and improve opportunities for the community living in the City of Campbelltown to enjoy an appropriate range of social, cultural and recreational facilities, and

(e) to ensure that environmentally sensitive areas (including waterways, riparian corridors, biological linkages, remnant native vegetation and associated buffers) are protected and, where damaged, rehabilitated, and

(f) to encourage a variety of forms of higher density housing in locations which are accessible to public transport, employment, retail, commercial and service facilities, and

(g) to ensure that heritage items are identified and protected, and

(h) to encourage the provision of a safe and efficient system for movement between the various parts of the urban area of the City of Campbelltown and to other places, particularly through the use of public transport, and encouraging cycling and walking, and

(i) to ensure that all development satisfies the principles of ecologically sustainable development, energy conservation and efficiency, and that the cumulative impact of development in sub-catchments is considered, and

(j) to conserve the environmental heritage of the urban area of the City of Campbelltown, and

(k) to retain the cultural significance of the urban area of the City of Campbelltown, and

(l) to conserve existing significant fabric, settings, relics and views associated with the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas, and

(m) to ensure that any development does not adversely affect the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas and their settings, and

(n) to ensure that archaeological sites and places of Aboriginal significance are conserved, and

(o) to allow for the protection of buildings, works, relics, trees, places and archaeological sites which have heritage significance but which are not identified as heritage items by an environmental planning instrument, and

(p) to ensure that the heritage conservation areas throughout the urban area of the City of Campbelltown retain their heritage significance, and

(q) to ensure that measures are adopted to minimise potential soil salinity problems.