New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LOCKHART LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2004 - REG 2

2 Aims and objectives of plan

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to encourage the proper management, development and conservation of natural and artificial resources within the local government area of Lockhart by protecting, enhancing or conserving:

(i) prime crop and pasture land, and

(ii) functioning agriculture, and

(iii) timber, mineral, soil, water and other natural resources, and

(iv) areas of significance for nature conservation, and

(v) areas of high scenic or recreational value, and

(vi) places and buildings of archaeological or heritage significance, including aboriginal relics and places, and

(b) to replace the existing planning controls with a single local environmental plan to help facilitate growth and development of the local government area of Lockhart in a manner which is consistent with the objectives specified in paragraph (a) and which:

(i) minimises the cost to the community of fragmented and isolated development of rural land, and

(ii) facilitates the efficient and effective delivery of amenities and services, and

(iii) facilitates a range of residential and employment opportunities in accordance with demand, and

(iv) facilitates farm adjustments, and

(v) ensures the efficiency of arterial roads is not adversely affected by development on adjacent lands, and

(c) to provide for a range of development opportunities which contribute to the social, economic and environmental resources of the area in a manner that allows present and future generations to meet their needs by implementing the principles for ecologically sustainable development, and

(d) to provide for exempt and complying development within the local government area of Lockhart, and

(e) to maintain the opportunity for public involvement and participation in the environmental planning and assessment process, and

(f) to reduce the incidence of damage to areas subject to flooding by restricting development in the flood plain and in the floodways, and

(g) to ensure new development is sympathetic to and does not detract from the distinctive character of the local government area of Lockhart, its streetscapes and landscapes.

(2) The objectives of this plan in relation to heritage are:

(a) to conserve the environmental heritage of the local government area of Lockhart, and

(b) to conserve the heritage significance of existing significant fabric, relics, settings and views associated with the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas, and

(c) to ensure that archaeological sites and places of Aboriginal heritage significance are conserved, and

(d) to allow for the protection of places which have the potential to have heritage significance but are not identified as heritage items, and

(e) to ensure that the heritage conservation areas throughout the area of Lockhart retain their heritage significance.