New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated RegulationsThe aims of this Part are as follows:
(a) to conserve the significance of heritage items, their settings, historic subdivisions, conservation areas, identified views and sites of national significance, and to facilitate the preservation of those areas and sites and their presentation as an important cultural tourist attraction,
(b) to maintain the role, and improve the amenity of, Harris Park Precinct as an important residential area close to the Parramatta City Centre, providing a range of different housing types and supporting land uses,
(c) to protect and enhance the unique visual qualities of the Parramatta River by ensuring that development along the foreshore is of a scale and character in keeping with its foreshore location, and to maximise public access to, and use of, foreshore land,
(d) to maintain existing commercial and industrial areas and encourage low to medium-rise buildings that are compatible with surrounding residential land uses,
(e) to achieve environmental management best practice that protects and promotes the natural assets of the Harris Park Precinct,
(f) to improve the environmental performance of development in a way that minimises energy and resource use and noise, odour, dust, water, soil, air quality and contamination impact,
(g) to protect and enhance local and regional biodiversity, maximising the extent and integrity of aquatic and natural land areas, in particular, the Parramatta River and Clay Cliff Creek corridors.