New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MUSWELLBROOK LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2009 - REG 1

1 Objectives of zone

• To encourage sustainable primary industry production by maintaining and enhancing the natural resource base.

• To encourage diversity in primary industry enterprises and systems appropriate for the area.

• To minimise the fragmentation and alienation of resource lands.

• To minimise conflict between land uses within this zone and land uses within adjoining zones.

• To protect the agricultural potential of rural land not identified for alternative land use, and to minimise the cost to the community of providing, extending and maintaining public amenities and services.

• To maintain the rural landscape character of the land in the long term.

• To ensure that development for the purpose of extractive industries, underground mines (other than surface works associated with underground mines) or open cut mines (other than open cut mines from the surface of the flood plain), will not--

(a) destroy or impair the agricultural production potential of the land or, in the case of underground mining, unreasonably restrict or otherwise affect any other development on the surface, or

(b) detrimentally affect in any way the quantity, flow and quality of water in either subterranean or surface water systems, or

(c) visually intrude into its surroundings, except by way of suitable screening.

• To protect or conserve (or both)--

(a) soil stability by controlling development in accordance with land capability, and

(b) trees and other vegetation, and

(c) water resources, water quality and wetland areas, and their catchments and buffer areas, and

(d) valuable deposits of minerals and extractive materials by restricting development that would compromise the efficient extraction of those deposits.