New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

COBAR LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2001 - REG 34

34 Irrigated development

(1) Despite any other provision of this plan, development consent is required for:

(a) any irrigated development, including agriculture involving irrigation, where the proposed development is to be carried out on land that has the benefit of a licence to irrigate issued under any Act or regulation, and

(b) the construction of the irrigation system required to carry out that development.

(2) Development consent is also required for the drainage of wetlands, cowals, swamps or bogs.

(3) A consent required by this clause must not be granted unless the consent authority has made an assessment of:

(a) the potential for the development to impact on:

(i) a water body, or

(ii) ground water quality and resources, or

(iii) stormwater drainage, or

(iv) the flow of flood water, including likely effects of flooding on adjoining land and other land in the locality, or

(v) access to private property or public land, and

(b) measures required to mitigate possible impacts.