New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

HASTINGS LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1987 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

The aims of this plan are:

(a) to provide for rural and village development by ensuring that adequate provision is made to meet the needs of an expanding population,

(b) to protect areas which depend on agricultural use of the land,

(c) to protect areas which are environmentally sensitive and which enhance visual amenity,

(d) to provide a safe and efficient transport network connecting land use activities within and outside the Municipality of Hastings,

(e) to permit urban expansion of Port Macquarie while protecting areas which are environmentally sensitive and which enhance visual amenity,

(f) to make general provisions for the urban expansion of Port Macquarie, allowing more detailed provisions relating to staging of urban expansion to be made by way of a development control plan, and

(g) to manage the urban areas of the Municipality of Hastings by strengthening retail hierarchies, promoting appropriate tourism development, guiding urban form, providing for the protection of heritage items and precincts and controlling the development of flood prone urban land, and

(h) based on a 1991 Hastings Heritage Study:

(i) to conserve the environmental heritage of the Municipality of Hastings,

(ii) to integrate heritage conservation into the planning and development control processes,

(iii) to provide for public involvement in the matters relating to the conservation of the environmental heritage of the Municipality of Hastings, and

(iv) to ensure that new development is undertaken in a manner that is sympathetic to and does not detract from the heritage significance of heritage items and their settings, as well as streetscapes and landscapes of the area and the distinctive character that they impart to the Municipality of Hastings.