New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WALCHA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2000 - REG 28

28 Heritage items

(1) A person must not, in respect of a building, work, relic, tree or place that is a heritage item:

(a) demolish or alter the building or work, or

(b) damage or move the relic, or

(c) excavate for the purpose of exposing the relic, or

(d) damage or despoil the place or tree, or

(e) erect a building on or subdivide land on which the building, work or relic is situated or that comprises the place, or

(f) damage any tree on land on which the building, work or relic is situated or on the land which comprises the place, unless in the course of routine maintenance of gardens,

except with development consent.

(2) Consent must not be granted to a development application required by subclause (1) unless the consent authority has taken into consideration the extent to which the carrying out of the proposed development would affect the heritage significance of the heritage item and any stylistic or horticultural features of its setting.

Note: The website of the Heritage Branch of the Department of Planning has publications that provide guidance on assessing the impact of proposed development on the heritage significance of items (for example, Statements of Heritage Impact ).