New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LOWER SOUTH COAST REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN (NO 2) - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to develop regional policies that protect the natural environment and promote the orderly and economic development and use of land and other resources in the region, consistent with conservation of natural and man-made features,

(b) to consolidate and amend various existing policies applying to the region, to make them more appropriate to regional needs, and to place them in the context of regional policy,

(c) to provide a basis for the coordination of activities related to growth in the region and to encourage optimum economic and social benefit to the local community and visitors to the region, and

(d) to establish a regional planning framework for identifying priorities for further investigation to be carried out by the Department of Planning and other agencies.

(2) The aims will be implemented in this plan by specifying:

(a) objectives for the future planning, development and use of land within the region, and

(b) regional policies to guide the preparation of local environmental plans and for development control.