New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

PARRAMATTA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1996 (HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION) - REG 14

14 Development adversely affecting a heritage item or heritage conservation area

(1) Before granting consent for development that may undermine or otherwise damage a heritage item or a building, work, relic, tree or place within a heritage conservation area or will obscure, overshadow or otherwise have a substantial adverse effect on a view of a heritage item or of a building, work or tree within a heritage conservation area, or that will otherwise adversely affect the heritage significance of a heritage item or heritage conservation area (or that will have a substantial adverse effect on a view from any such item or from habitable places within any such area), the consent authority must assess the impact of the development:

(a) on the heritage significance, curtilage and setting of the heritage item or the heritage significance of the heritage conservation area, and

(b) on any significant views to or from the heritage item or the heritage conservation area.

(2) The consent authority may refuse to grant any such consent unless it has considered a heritage impact statement that will help it to assess the impact of the proposed development on the heritage significance, visual curtilage and setting of the heritage item or the heritage significance of the heritage conservation area.

(3) The heritage impact statement should include details of the size, shape and scale of, setbacks for, and the materials to be used in, any proposed buildings or works and details of any modification that would reduce the impact of the proposed development on the significance of the heritage item or the heritage conservation area.