New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

GOULBURN MULWAREE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2009 - REG 7.1

7.1 Flood planning land

(1) The objectives of this clause are as follows:

(a) to maintain the existing flood regime and flow conveyance capacity,

(b) to enable safe occupation and evacuation of land subject to flooding,

(c) to avoid significant adverse impacts on flood behaviour,

(d) to avoid significant effects on the environment that would cause avoidable erosion, siltation, destruction of riparian vegetation or a reduction in the stability of river banks or watercourses,

(e) to limit uses to those compatible with flow conveyance function and flood hazard.

(2) This clause applies to land shown as “flood planning land” on the Flood Planning Land Map .

(3) Development consent is required for any development on land to which this clause applies.

(4) Development consent must not be granted for development on land to which this clause applies unless the consent authority is satisfied that the development will not:

(a) adversely affect flood behaviour resulting in detrimental increases in the potential flood affectation of other development or properties, or

(b) significantly alter flow distributions and velocities to the detriment of other properties or the environment of the floodplain, or

(c) affect the safe occupation or evacuation of the land, or

(d) significantly detrimentally affect the floodplain environment or cause avoidable erosion, siltation, destruction of riparian vegetation or a reduction in the stability of river banks or watercourses, or

(e) be likely to result in unsustainable social and economic costs to the community as a consequence of flooding, or

(f) if located in a floodway:

(i) be incompatible with the flow conveyance function of the floodway, or

(ii) cause or increase a flood hazard in the floodway.