New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MANLY LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1988 - REG 3

3 Aims and objectives

(1) The general aims and objectives of this plan are:

(a) to repeal all the existing local planning controls which apply to the land shown on the map and to replace those controls with a single local environmental plan,

(b) to give the council greater responsibility for environmental planning by creating only broad controls in this plan and leaving more detailed local environmental planning provisions in the development control plans provided by the council,

(c) to simplify the general restrictions on development by reducing the number of land use zones,

(d) to encourage further development of the commercial centres to cater for the retail, commercial, entertainment, welfare and recreational needs of residents and visitors,

(e) to increase the availability and variety of dwellings to enable population growth without having adverse effects on the character and amenity of the Municipality,

(f) to recognise that tourism is a major industry and employer in Manly and to endeavour to encourage its growth and continuing viability,

(g) to conserve and protect Aboriginal relics and items of the environmental heritage being buildings, works, relics or places of historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, traditional, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance,

(h) to manage change within the Municipality so that Aboriginal relics and items of the environmental heritage that contribute to its special sense of place are protected and conserved,

(i) to preserve and enhance the amenity of defined environmentally sensitive areas, public places and areas visible from public places or from navigable waters around the Municipality,

(j) to ensure that new development does not detract from the very special visual quality of the Municipality,

(k) to interrelate movement systems with land use, and

(l) to increase safety and amenity of residential, commercial and industrial precincts without downgrading accessibility.

(2) The particular aims of this plan are:

(a) to divide land into the zones referred to in clause 9 and to achieve in each of those zones the objectives specified for the land in clause 10, and

(b) to enable the council to make development control plans regulating the carrying out of development in any zone:

(i) by restricting the carrying out of that development to a specified area within the zone, or

(ii) by fixing standards or specifying requirements for that development,

(c) to make provision for exempt development within the Manly local government area, and

(d) to make provision for complying development within the Manly local government area other than those areas where, because of environmental sensitivity, the consideration of development applications by the Council would be more appropriate, and

(e) to provide environmental planning controls that will result in the management of any disturbance to acid sulphate soils so as to minimise impacts on natural waterbodies and wetlands and on fishing, urban and infrastructure activities, and

(f) to require development consent for works that would disturb soils or groundwater levels in localities identified as having acid sulphate soils, and

(g) to require special assessment of certain development on land identified as being subject to risks associated with the disturbance of acid sulphate soils.