New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

QUEANBEYAN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1998 - REG 2

2 Aims and general objectives of plan

The aims and general objectives of this plan are:

(a) to consolidate and update former planning instruments that applied to the City of Queanbeyan, and

(b) to recognise and protect Queanbeyan’s cultural and archaeological heritage, including environmentally sensitive areas such as Queanbeyan’s native grasslands, the Queanbeyan fault escarpment, the Queanbeyan River and Jerrabomberra Creek, and

(c) to ensure that development occurs in locations and at scales that are sensitive to heritage, and to other environmental and planning constraints, and

(d) to ensure that development is well designed and has minimal adverse impact on adjoining development and natural areas, and

(e) to provide for a diversity of housing throughout the City, and

(f) to recognise the main shopping centres of the City as the Queanbeyan City central business district and the proposed Jerrabomberra shopping centre as well as the importance of the Karabar shopping centre, and

(g) to encourage additional employment opportunities for the City, and

(h) to encourage functional and economically viable industrial development which does not pollute or adversely affect the adjoining land or water or the amenity of nearby residents, and

(i) to enable provision of a range of community and social facilities to serve the population, and

(j) to provide natural areas, open space and a range of recreational facilities to meet the needs of current and future generations, and

(k) to encourage and promote ecologically sustainable development strategies in the development and redevelopment of the City, and

(l) to recognise the proximity of the City of Queanbeyan to the Australian Capital Territory and Yarralumla local government area and the relationships between them, and

(m) to provide specific objectives for each zone created by this plan.