New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WINGECARRIBEE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1989 - REG 16D

16D Planned forestry within Zone No 7 (b)

(1) This clause applies to land within Zone No 7 (b).

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this plan, the Council may grant consent for the carrying out of development on the land to which this clause applies for the purpose of planned forestry.

(3) In considering an application for consent to development for the purpose of planned forestry, the Council must take into account whether adequate provision has been made (where relevant to the proposed development):

(a) for stormwater and floodwater run off arising from the proposed development to be disposed of without any risk of contamination to the local river system, and in such a way as to ensure that there will be no overall adverse impact on water quality, and

(b) for the proposed development to be carried out in accordance with a soil, water and erosion management plan, and

(c) for the establishment of a vegetated riparian protection zone at least 30 metres wide along the foreshores of all water courses and wetlands on or adjoining the land, within which no forestry activities or improvements, such as harvesting or access roads, trails and the like, will be carried out, so as to prevent nutrient run off and water quality degradation, and

(d) for the protection of ground water in the area from degradation and contamination in such a way as to ensure that there will be no overall adverse impact on ground water quality, and

(e) for compliance with any relevant codes of forest and logging practices prepared under the Forestry Act 1916 or the regulations under that Act, and the Standard Erosion Mitigation Guidelines for Logging in New South Wales prepared by the former Department of Conservation and Land Management in March 1993 and available for inspection at the offices of the Council, and

(f) for conservation of the cultural, heritage, aesthetic and environmental significance of the landscape.

(4) In this clause:
"planned forestry" means the planting of trees on previously cleared land, specifically for harvesting at a later date, the maintenance and harvesting of such trees, and the establishment of any associated forest access roads and trails, riparian protection zones, or like ancillary infrastructure servicing the development, undertaken in accordance with a forest plan of management approved by the Council, and includes the rehabilitation of the land on which any such harvesting occurs.