New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GUNNING LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1997 - REG 2

2 What is the purpose of this plan?

The general aims of this plan are:

(a) to establish flexible planning controls which will make the administration of planning more efficient, and

(b) to maintain and encourage sustainable commercial agriculture, and

(c) to encourage the sustainable management, development and conservation of natural resources and the conservation of native flora and fauna by protecting, enhancing and conserving better quality grazing lands (particularly prime crop and pasture land), soil, water and the like, and

(d) to protect and conserve the environmental and cultural heritage of the area of Gunning, and

(e) to enhance and provide a range of housing opportunities in, and the residential and service functions of, the main villages in the area, and

(f) to provide a range of housing opportunities, including rural residential development in the vicinity of the villages, and

(g) to allow development only if it does not have the effect of placing unreasonable financial burdens on ratepayers, particularly in relation to road upgrading, maintenance and services, and

(h) to allow development only if it occurs in a manner which minimises risks due to environmental hazards, and minimises risks to important elements of the physical environment, including water quality, and

(i) to promote and co-ordinate the orderly and economic use and development of land in the area, and

(j) to give the Council greater responsibility for environmental planning by creating a broad framework of controls and to create the opportunity for the more detailed provisions relating to matters of local significance only to be dealt with by development control plans made by the Council.