New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

SNOWY RIVER LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1997 - REG 2

2 What are the aims of this plan?

The aims of this plan are to:

(a) introduce planning controls for the short-term, which reflect local and State objectives, and

(b) encourage the sustainable use of natural resources, and

(c) protect viable agricultural and other rural industries from conflicting uses, and

(d) protect water resources, water quality and minimise pollution, and

(e) protect, conserve or enhance important natural and constructed features, areas of high landscape value, conservation areas, biological diversity, recreation areas and places or structures of heritage significance, and

(f) ensure that development in rural areas has minimum detrimental impact on the visual qualities of the rural landscape and discourage buildings protruding above the skyline in rural areas, and

(g) provide for rural residential development in suitably identified areas, and

(h) locate new urban development adjacent to existing urban areas in urban zones, and

(i) provide adequate land for a range of housing types, and

(j) encourage adequate social and community services in locations of high accessibility, and

(k) facilitate the broadening of the local economy to reduce adverse effects and other fluctuations by encouraging new agricultural pursuits, year-round tourism, additional industries and other activities in appropriate locations, and

(l) help reduce adverse effects due to seasonal and other major fluctuations in the local economy, and

(m) accommodate in existing urban areas urban development generated by major tourist attractions of the area.