New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

RICHMOND RIVER LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1992 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) The general aims of this plan are:

(a) to encourage the proper management, development and conservation of the natural and man-made resources within Richmond River Shire, to provide for social and economic welfare of the community and to provide a better environment,

(b) to ensure adequate land is available in suitable locations for the needs of a range of beneficial and appropriate land uses,

(c) to repeal all existing and deemed local environmental planning instruments which apply to the Shire and to replace those fragmentary instruments with a comprehensive local environmental plan, and

(d) to maintain the opportunity for public involvement and participation in environmental planning and assessment by using development control plans to supplement the broad controls of the plan.

(2) The particular aims of the plan are:

(a) to divide land into zones referred to in clause 8 and to achieve, in respect of land within each of those zones, the objectives specified for that zone in the Table to clause 9,

(b) to encourage the Council to make development control plans regulating the carrying out of development in any zone:

(i) by restricting the carrying out of that development to a specified area within the zone, or

(ii) by fixing standards or specifying requirements in respect of any aspect of that development,

(c) to ensure that development is carried out in such a way as to allow the economic and efficient provision of public services and amenities,

(d) to promote the conservation of productive and potentially productive agricultural land,

(e) to ensure that development occurs or is managed in such a manner that there is minimal risk to sensitive environments, including wetlands, coastal systems, wooded slopes and ridgelines and other similar resources,

(f) to develop a safe, convenient and economic movement system for public and private motor vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians,

(g) to identify and improve landscape and townscape elements within the villages of the Shire,

(h) to ensure conservation of the heritage items within the Shire, and the historic, architectural and aesthetic character of the villages within the Shire, and the Shire’s rural environment,

(i) to reduce the incidence of damage in areas subject to flooding by restricting development in the flood plain and in the floodway,

(j) to reduce the incidence of damage to areas subject to other natural hazards,

(k) to provide opportunities for tourist orientated development while protecting those elements of the Shire’s character that are attractive to tourists, and

(l) to make zoning adjustment to the villages located within the Shire to allow for urban expansion.