New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CABONNE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1991 - REG 29

29 Heritage conservation area

(1) A person shall not, in respect of a heritage conservation area:

(a) demolish, extend or change the outside of a building or work within that area, including changes to the outside of the building or work that involve the repair of the painting, plastering or other decoration to the outside of the building or work,

(b) damage or despoil a relic or part of a relic within that area,

(c) excavate any land for the purpose of exposing or removing a relic within that area,

(d) erect a building within that area, or

(e) subdivide the land within that area,

except with the consent of the Council.

(2) The Council shall not grant a consent required by subclause (1) unless it has made an assessment of:

(a) the extent to which the carrying out of the development in accordance with the consent would affect the historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance of the conservation area, and

(b) whether a refusal to grant consent would constitute a danger to the users or occupiers of that land or the public.

(3) The Council shall not grant a consent required by subclause (1), being consent to the erection of a new building or to the alteration of the exterior of an existing building, unless the Council has made an assessment of:

(a) the pitch and form of the roof,

(b) the style, size, proportion and position of the openings for windows and doors,

(c) whether the colour, texture, style, size and type of finish of the materials to be used on the exterior of the building are compatible with the materials used in the existing buildings in the conservation area, and

(d) any other architectural feature characteristic of other existing buildings in the conservation area.