New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WYONG LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1991 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

(1) In accordance with the objects of the Act, the overall aims of this plan are:

(a) to promote the management, development, conservation and economic use of the resources of the Shire of Wyong and to protect the amenity of its environment, and

(b) to provide a comprehensive planning instrument for the Shire that is clear and explicit but which provides flexibility in its application, and

(c) to facilitate and encourage ecological, economic and social sustainability.

(2) The objectives of this plan are:

(a) in relation to population and housing:

(i) to provide opportunity for the development of a wide range of housing stock commensurate with the changing characteristics of the Shire’s population,

(ii) to encourage residential development that will achieve efficient use of existing physical and social infrastructure, and

(iii) to provide for new urban development in areas that can be economically serviced and that are environmentally suitable,

(b) in relation to employment and economic development:

(i) to facilitate employment generating development which will contribute to the economic and social growth of the Shire of Wyong, and

(ii) to provide for appropriate home-based employment opportunities, and

(iii) to encourage mixed use development in appropriate locations,

(c) in relation to retailing and commerce, to maintain and reinforce the viability of commercial centres in a manner appropriate to their functional role,

(d) in relation to leisure and tourism, to provide for appropriate open space and tourist development opportunities and to allow for the development of a variety of recreation and leisure activities commensurate with the size and preference of the population and the Shire’s role as a tourist location,

(e) in relation to community services, to allow for the provision of a variety of community facilities appropriate to the needs of the people of the Shire of Wyong,

(f) in relation to transport:

(i) to delineate the arterial road network and to facilitate the free flow of traffic thereon,

(ii) to provide for additions to a realignments of the road network, and

(iii) to provide for regional aerodrome facilities,

(g) in relation to rural and environmental areas:

(i) to protect environmentally sensitive areas from development and minimise adverse impacts of urban development on the natural environment,

(ii) to restrict development within flood prone areas in order to minimise flood damage and obstruction to flood waters, and

(iii) to encourage use of land having a high agricultural potential for that purpose and as much as possible direct non-agricultural purposes to land of lesser agricultural potential,

(h) in relation to conservation, to protect, conserve and provide for the enhancement of items of environmental heritage,

(i) in relation to administration, to provide guidance in the facilitation and management of development in Wyong through enunciation of the Council’s environmental planning objectives, and

(j) in relation to tree preservation:

(i) to minimise land degradation, and

(ii) to conserve trees and native vegetation, and

(iii) to ensure that development and land management practices do not have adverse effects on water catchments, water quality and important ecosystems such as streams, estuaries and wetlands.

(3) The particular objectives of each zone are set out in the Table to clause 10.