New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WAGGA WAGGA RURAL LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1991 - REG 24

24 Items of the environmental heritage

(1) A person shall not, in respect of a building, work, relic or place that is an item of the environmental heritage:

(a) demolish, renovate or extend that building or work,

(b) damage or despoil that relic or place or any part of that relic or place,

(c) excavate any land for the purpose of exposing or removing that relic, or

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

except with the consent of the Council.

(2) The Council shall not grant consent to a development application made in pursuance of subclause (1) unless it has made an assessment of:

(a) the significance of the item as an item of the environmental heritage of the City of Wagga Wagga,

(b) the extent to which the carrying out of the development in accordance with the consent would affect the historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance of the item and its site,

(c) whether the setting of the item, and in particular, whether any stylistic, horticultural or archaeological features of the setting should be retained, and

(d) whether the item constitutes a danger to the users or occupiers of that item or to the public.