New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 71--COASTAL PROTECTION - REG 2

2 Aims of Policy

(1) This Policy aims:

(a) to protect and manage the natural, cultural, recreational and economic attributes of the New South Wales coast, and

(b) to protect and improve existing public access to and along coastal foreshores to the extent that this is compatible with the natural attributes of the coastal foreshore, and

(c) to ensure that new opportunities for public access to and along coastal foreshores are identified and realised to the extent that this is compatible with the natural attributes of the coastal foreshore, and

(d) to protect and preserve Aboriginal cultural heritage, and Aboriginal places, values, customs, beliefs and traditional knowledge, and

(e) to ensure that the visual amenity of the coast is protected, and

(f) to protect and preserve beach environments and beach amenity, and

(g) to protect and preserve native coastal vegetation, and

(h) to protect and preserve the marine environment of New South Wales, and

(i) to protect and preserve rock platforms, and

(j) to manage the coastal zone in accordance with the principles of ecologically sustainable development (within the meaning of section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 ), and

(k) to ensure that the type, bulk, scale and size of development is appropriate for the location and protects and improves the natural scenic quality of the surrounding area, and

(l) to encourage a strategic approach to coastal management.

(2) This Policy:

(b) requires certain development applications to carry out development in sensitive coastal locations to be referred to the Director-General for comment, and

(c) identifies master plan requirements for certain development in the coastal zone.

(3) This Policy aims to further the implementation of the Government’s coastal policy.