New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

FORBES LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1986 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) The general aims of this plan are:

(a) to repeal the existing local planning controls which apply to the land shown on the map and to replace those controls with a single local environmental plan,

(b) to simplify the general restrictions on development by keeping to a minimum the number of zones into which the land is divided,

(c) to give the council the greatest possible flexibility and the maximum responsibility for environmental planning by creating only a broad framework of controls and leaving the more detailed provisions relating to matters of significance only for local environmental planning to be contained in development control plans made by the Council, and

(d) to maintain the opportunity for public involvement and participation in environmental planning and assessment by encouraging the use of development control plans to supplement the broad controls in this plan.

(2) The particular aims of this plan are:

(a) to divide land into zones referred to in clause 8 and to achieve in respect of land within each of those zones the objectives specified in the Table to clause 9,

(b) to encourage the Council to make development control plans regulating the carrying out of development permitted in Zone No 4 (a), for example:

(i) by restricting the carrying out of that development to a specified area within the zone, or

(ii) by fixing standards or specifying requirements in respect of any aspect of that development,

(c) to ensure that development is carried out in such a way as to allow the economic and efficient provision of public services and amenities,

(d) to identify the Central Business District as the commercial and retail focus of the Shire and to allow for its expansion and redevelopment as and when it is required,

(e) to promote Forbes as a tourist base and a centre for sporting and leisure facilities,

(f) to further develop the road hierarchy to allow for the efficient and safe movement of traffic throughout the urban area,

(g) to facilitate access to the floodplain of the Lachlan River by the upgrading of rural roads close to the urban area,

(h) to reduce the incidence of damage on flood liable lands within the urban and fringe areas by restricting development in the flood plain and the floodways, which generally include the 1 in 20 year flood area-especially the Lake Forbes and Lawler/Renfree Streets floodways, and

(i) to encourage the preparation of development control plans to control development in the Lake Forbes and Lawler/Renfree Street floodways and on flood liable land throughout the urban area.