New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GRIFFITH LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2002 - REG 4

4 Aims of this plan

The aims of this plan are:

(a) to provide for urban and rural land development by implementing the Griffith Growth Strategy 2030-Urban and Rural Land Release Strategy , and

(b) to provide a legal basis for development control plans that provide more detailed local planning policies, and

(c) to protect areas on which agriculture depends, and

(d) to protect areas that are environmentally sensitive, and

(e) to manage the urban areas of the local government area by strengthening retail hierarchies, promoting appropriate tourism development, guiding affordable urban form, providing for the protection of heritage items and precincts and controlling the development of flood liable land, and

(f) to promote ecologically sustainable urban and rural development, and

(g) to promote development of rural land in accordance with the aims and objectives of the MIA & Districts Community Land and Water Management Plan .