New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

COBAR LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2001 - REG 2

2 What are the aims of the plan?

The aims of this plan are to:

(a) repeal all the existing local environmental plans and planning instruments which apply to land within the local government area of Cobar and to consolidate and update the Council’s planning controls in a new local environmental plan, and

(b) to provide for exempt and complying development and thereby provide exemption from State Environmental Planning Policy No 60-Exempt and Complying Development while preserving exemption from clauses 6-10 of State Environmental Planning Policy No 4-Development Without Consent , and

(c) outline planning controls which are clear and explicit but also provide flexibility in their application, and

(d) conserve and protect Aboriginal heritage, and

(e) conserve and protect the environmental heritage and natural resources of Cobar, and

(f) promote and encourage ecologically sustainable development, and

(g) provide a framework for more detailed controls to be contained within development control plans, and

(h) provide opportunities for public participation in the environmental planning and development process.