New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PARKES LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1990 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) The aims of this plan are:

(a) to consolidate and update planning controls for the Shire of Parkes in the one instrument,

(b) to provide flexible planning controls to assist the council in its administration of planning,

(c) to enable the council to prepare development control plans to introduce more detailed policies and guidelines,

(d) to preserve prime agricultural land and to encourage the location of non-agricultural development in rural areas on less productive land,

(e) to encourage the continuation of agricultural enterprise, while accommodating new types of agricultural activity, land uses which support agriculture, or changes to agriculture due to economic conditions,

(f) to encourage the continued development of the town of Parkes as the main service and industrial centre in the district,

(g) to encourage further development in the main villages in the Shire and the maintenance of their facilities and services,

(h) to conserve the environmental heritage of the Shire of Parkes,

(i) to provide a range of housing opportunities, including the future urban growth of Parkes and rural residential development in the vicinity of Parkes,

(j) to ensure that the council has adequate power to deal with inappropriate development, particularly development likely to degrade the land, and

(k) to provide opportunities for the expansion of the tourism industry.

(2) The objectives of the zones adopted by this plan for the purpose of achieving the aims in subclause (1) are set out in relation to those zones in the Table to clause 9.