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SEVERN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2002 - SCHEDULE 8

SCHEDULE 8 – Public utility activities undertaken by public authorities

(Clause 9, Table)

Air transport undertakings

The carrying out by persons carrying on air transport undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings within the boundaries of any aerodrome, of any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by air, including the construction, reconstruction, alterations, maintenance and repair of ways, buildings, works and plant required for that purpose, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or
(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

Flood mitigation works

The carrying out or causing to be carried out by a council engaged in flood mitigation works or by the Department of Land and Water Conservation of any work for the purposes of soil conservation, irrigation, afforestation, reafforestation, flood mitigation, water conservation or river improvement in pursuance of the provisions of the Water Act 1912 , the Farm Water Supplies Act 1946 , the Rivers and Foreshores Improvement Act 1948 or the Water Management Act 2000 , except:

(a) the erection of buildings, the installation or erection of plant or other structures or erections and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance,
(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

Forestry work

The carrying out of any forestry work by State Forests, a School Forest Trust or Community Forest Authorities empowered under relevant Acts to undertake afforestation, roading, protection, cutting and marketing of timber, and other forestry purposes under such Acts or on any Crown land temporarily reserved from sale as a timber reserve under the Forestry Act 1916 .

Public utility undertakings

The carrying out by persons carrying on public utility undertakings, being water, sewerage, drainage, electricity or gas undertakings, of any of the following development, being development required for the purpose of their undertakings, that is to say:

(a) development of any description at or below the surface of the ground,
(b) the installation of any plant inside a building or the installation or erection within the premises of a generating station or substation established before 31 October 1975 of any plant or other structures or erections required in connection with the station or substation,
(c) the installation or erection of any plant or other structures or erections by way of addition to or replacement or extension of plant or structures or erections already installed or erected, including the installation in an electrical transmission line of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housing, but not including the erection of overhead lines for the supply of electricity or pipes above the surface of the ground for the supply of water, or the installation of substations, feeder-pillars or transformer housings of stone, concrete or brickworks,
(d) the provision of overhead service lines in pursuance of any statutory power to provide a supply of electricity,
(e) the erection of service reservoirs on land acquired or in process of being acquired for the purpose before 31 October 1975, provided reasonable notice of the proposed erection is given to the Council,
(f) any other development except:
(i) the erection of buildings, the installation or erection of plant or other structures or erections and the reconstruction or alteration, so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, of buildings, or
(ii) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

Railway undertakings

The carrying out by persons carrying on railway undertakings on land comprised in their undertakings of:

(a) any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of ways, works and plant, and
(b) the erection within the limits of a railway station of buildings for any purpose,
but excluding:
(c) the construction of new railways, railway stations and bridges over roads, and
(d) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway undertaking purposes outside the limits of a railway station and the reconstruction or alteration, so as materially to affect their design, of railway stations or bridges, and
(e) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road, and
(f) the erection, reconstruction and alteration of buildings for purposes other than railway purposes where such buildings have direct access to a public place.

Road maintenance and construction

The carrying out of any development required in connection with the construction, reconstruction, improvement, maintenance or repair of any road, except the widening, realignment or relocation of such road.

Road transport undertakings

The carrying out by persons carrying on road transport undertakings, on land comprised in their undertakings, of any development required in connection with the movement of traffic by road, including the construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance and repair of buildings, works and plant required for that purpose, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or external appearance, or
(b) the formation or alteration of any means of access to a road.

Travelling stock and water reserve maintenance

The carrying out by a Rural Land Protection Board of any development required for the improvement and maintenance of travelling stock and water reserves, except:

(a) the erection of buildings and the reconstruction or alteration of buildings so as materially to affect their design or purposes, or
(b) any development designed to change the use or purpose of any such reserve.



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