New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsThe principles that the consent authority will follow to achieve the aims and objectives of this plan are the following:
(a) recognition of the responsibilities of this generation to future generations in relation to environmental quality and resource usage, which require respect for the limits of natural and physical resources,
(b) involvement of the community in the planning process by ensuring openness, accountability and transparency in the decision-making process,
(c) a consistent and proper regard for all the provisions of the plan (in particular, when considering development applications),
(d) application of the provisions of the plan so that the objectives of each zone can be achieved in practice, and to provide certainty for applicants for development consents, investors, residents and the public,
(e) the making of provisions in development control plans and the imposition of conditions on development consents so as to further the aims and objectives of this plan, including provisions limiting the range of uses or scale of development on the land to which it applies.