New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CAMDEN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 74--HARRINGTON PARK - REG 3

3 Aims and objectives

This plan aims:

(a) to maintain and enhance the character of the locality to which this plan applies by:

(i) providing for development that recognises and promotes the distinctive character and amenity of the locality, and

(ii) maintaining and strengthening the landscape character and heritage features of the locality, and

(iii) preserving significant landscape features and urban bushland areas, 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, 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 that will provide a pleasant living environment, and

(ii) promoting development suitable to the site, 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) accepting and making a feature of natural environmental factors, and

(iii) minimising the use of resources with regard to land, energy and materials, and

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

(v) providing a suitable drainage system that will upgrade downstream water quality, add to visual amenity and control stormwater flow, 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.