New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

YARROWLUMLA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1993 - REG 2

2 Aims, objectives etc

The general aims of the plan are:

(a) to encourage the proper management, development and conservation of natural and man-made resources within the Shire of Yarrowlumla by protecting, enhancing or conserving:

(i) productive agricultural and horticultural land,

(ii) timber, minerals, soil, water and other natural resources,

(iii) localities of significance for nature conservation, and

(iv) localities of high scenic or recreational value, and

(b) in relation to environmental heritage:

(i) to conserve the environmental heritage of the Shire of Yarrowlumla,

(ii) to integrate heritage conservation into the planning and development control processes,

(iii) to provide for public involvement in matters relating to the conservation of the Shire of Yarrowlumla’s environmental heritage, and

(iv) to ensure that new development is undertaken in a manner that is sympathetic to and does not detract from the heritage significance of heritage items and their settings, as well as streetscapes and landscapes of village and rural areas and the distinctive character that they impart to the Shire of Yarrowlumla, and

(c) to replace planning controls with a single local environmental plan to help facilitate the growth and development of the Shire of Yarrowlumla in a manner which is consistent with the aims specified in paragraph (a) and which:

(i) minimises the costs to the community of fragmented and isolated development of rural land,

(ii) facilitates the efficient and effective provision of amenities and services,

(iii) facilitates a range of residential and employment opportunities in accordance with demand,

(iv) facilitates farm adjustments, and

(v) ensures that the efficiency of arterial roads is not adversely affected by development on adjacent land, and

(d) to simplify the general restrictions on development by reducing the number of zones into which land is divided, and

(e) to give the Council greater responsibility for environmental planning by creating a broad framework of controls and to create opportunity for the more detailed provisions relating to matters of significance only for local environmental planning to be contained in development control plans made by the Council, and

(f) to maintain the opportunity for public involvement and participation in the environmental planning and assessment process.