New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CAMPBELLTOWN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 32 - REG 18

18 Agriculture, animal boarding or training establishments, intensive horticulture and intensive livestock keeping

(1) In this Plan:
"agriculture" means the use of land for horticulture and livestock keeping and breeding but does not include intensive horticulture, intensive livestock keeping or the use of land for an animal boarding or training establishment.
"animal boarding or training establishment" means a building or place used for commercial boarding, breeding, keeping, maintaining, receiving or training of dogs, cats, horses or birds.
"intensive horticulture" means the use of land to grow a commercial crop of plants, trees or fungi, whether under cover or in the open using any of the following:

(a) hydroponics,

(b) sprinkler systems,

(c) artificial housing,

(d) crop protection structures,

(e) market gardening,

(f) orcharding,

(g) the growing of field flowers,

but does not include the growing of produce solely for personal consumption or enjoyment by an owner or occupier of a dwelling on the land on which they are grown.
"intensive livestock keeping" means the use of land for keeping and nurturing cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, or other livestock by predominantly supplementary feeding methods and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes the use of land for:

(a) feedlots,

(b) piggeries,

(c) poultry farms,

(d) the farming of fish (including crustaceans),

but does not include the use of land for an animal boarding or training establishment or the use of land for the keeping of livestock intended solely for personal consumption or enjoyment by an owner or occupier of a dwelling on the land.

(2) The Council in determining an application for consent required for any of the uses defined in this clause shall take into consideration the following matters:

(a) the need to protect the quality of downstream watercourses,

(b) the need to conserve native vegetation,

(c) the need to protect environmentally sensitive land, such as riparian land, land containing an endangered species, population or ecological community or a vulnerable species within the meaning of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 ,

(d) the need to protect the amenity of the area from noise, spray drift, odour or any other potentially offensive consequences,

(e) the need to limit the impact of development on flood liable land,

(f) the cumulative impact of the proposed use and the use of the land for the keeping of livestock or the growing of produce intended solely for personal consumption or enjoyment by an owner or occupier of a dwelling on the land.