New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY (INFRASTRUCTURE) 2007 - REG 129A

129A Development with consent

(1) Development for the purposes of a sea wall or beach nourishment may be carried out by any person with consent on the open coast or entrance to a coastal lake.

(2) If a coastal zone management plan does not apply to the land on which any such development is to be carried out, the Coastal Panel has the function of determining a development application for development to which this clause applies.

(3) Before determining a development application for development to which this clause applies, the consent authority must take the following matters into consideration:

(a) the provisions of any coastal zone management plan applying to the land,

(b) the matters set out in clause 8 of State Environmental Planning Policy No 71-Coastal Protection ,

(c) any guidelines for assessing and managing the impacts of coastal protection works that are issued by the Director-General for the purposes of this clause and published in the Gazette.

Note: Section 55M of the Coastal Protection Act 1979 sets out preconditions to the granting of development consent relating to coastal protection works.