New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CAMDEN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 46 - REG 2

2 Aims

This plan aims:

(a) to promote the retention of, and to enhance, the characteristics of the different localities in which housing is or will be situated within the area of Camden by:

(i) providing for development that takes into account and promotes the distinctive character and amenity of those localities, and preserves or will create a strong physical and visual distinction between those localities, and

(ii) maintaining and strengthening the landscape characteristics and heritage features of those localities, and

(iii) encouraging development that results in a clear and attractive identity for each residential release area, and

(iv) maintaining the advantages of the traditional lifestyle provided by separate towns in a rural setting, and

(v) encouraging innovative and attractive forms of housing and patterns of residential subdivision, and

(b) to provide for a wide range of housing needs by:

(i) allowing a choice of housing options in each town, and

(ii) satisfying the housing needs of the community, including socially and physically disadvantaged people, and

(iii) increasing the density of residential development near commercial and community facilities where satisfactory transport services are available, and

(iv) promoting more affordable housing, and

(c) to achieve a high quality of development by:

(i) encouraging a high design quality, which will provide a pleasant living environment, and

(ii) promoting development suitable to particular localities, and

(iii) allowing people to carry out a reasonable range of activities from their homes, where such activities are not likely to affect the living environment of neighbours, and

(d) to achieve sustainable development by:

(i) maintaining the existing quality of life, and

(ii) encouraging development that efficiently uses and makes a feature of natural environmental factors, and

(iii) minimising waste and harm to the environment in the use of land, energy and material resources, and

(iv) ensuring that services and facilities will be adequate to support additional development, and

(e) to promote the use of buildings which are designed, sited and constructed, using passive solar principles, so as to maximise energy efficiency by reducing the consumption of non-renewable forms of energy for heating and cooling purposes, and

(f) to conserve the environmental heritage of the area of Camden, by:

(i) integrating heritage conservation into the planning and development control processes, and

(ii) providing for public involvement in the conservation of environmental heritage, and

(iii) requiring the assessment of development with regard to the principle that any development should not adversely affect the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas and their settings.