New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsA draft local environmental plan applying to prime crop or pasture land should:
(a) identify and include land in an agricultural protection zone and contain provisions that:(i) prevent the subdivision of land within the zone for purposes other than commercial farming,(ii) set minimum allotment sizes which maintain the concept of a minimum area capable of efficient, sustainable agricultural production in the long term,(iii) separate land zoned for residential use from land zoned or used for agricultural use or for intensive animal industries, and(iv) prohibit development which is incompatible with the objectives of this Division, and(v) rezone prime crop or pasture land for purposes other than agricultural only after a detailed analysis of the agricultural capability of the land and adjoining land has been carried out, and
(b) in relation to any prime crop or pasture land not identified and included in an agricultural protection zone in paragraph (a):(i) include provisions that retain the land for commercial farming purposes, and(ii) set minimum lot sizes which are sufficient to maintain commercial farming in the long term.