New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

NORTH COAST REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN - REG 2

2 Aims

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to develop regional policies that protect the natural environment, encourage an efficient and attractive built environment and guide development into a productive yet environmentally sound future,

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

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

(d) to initiate a regional planning process that will serve as a framework for identifying priorities for further investigation to be carried out by the Department and other agencies.

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

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

(b) specifying regional policies to guide the preparation of local environmental plans within the region, and

(c) specifying regional policies for the control of development in the region.