New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MAITLAND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2011 - REG 1.2

1.2 Aims of Plan

(1) This Plan aims to make local environmental planning provisions for land in Maitland in accordance with the relevant standard environmental planning instrument under section 3.20 of the Act.

(2) The particular aims of this Plan are as follows--

(aa) to protect and promote the use and development of land for arts and cultural activity, including music and other performance arts,

(a) to facilitate ecologically sustainable development of land and natural assets,

(b) to protect and maintain the extent, condition, connectivity and resilience of natural ecosystems, native vegetation, wetlands and landscapes, including those aspects of the environment that are matters of national environmental significance within Maitland in the long term,

(c) to properly plan and protect human-made resources of Maitland including buildings, structures and sites of recognised significance which are part of the heritage of Maitland,

(d) to protect, enhance or conserve the natural resources of Maitland including the following--

(i) areas of high scenic rural quality,

(ii) productive agricultural land,

(iii) habitat for listed threatened species and endangered ecological communities,

(iv) minerals of regional significance,

(e) to create liveable communities which are well connected, accessible and sustainable,

(f) to provide a diversity of affordable housing with a range of housing choices throughout Maitland,

(g) to allow for future urban development on land within urban release areas and ensure that development on such land occurs in a co-ordinated and cost-effective manner,

(h) to concentrate intensive urban land uses and trip-generating activities in locations most accessible to transport and centres, strengthening activity centre and precinct hierarchies and employment opportunities,

(i) to ensure that land uses are organised to minimise risks from hazards including flooding, bushfire, subsidence, acid sulfate soils and climate change,

(j) to encourage orderly, feasible and equitable development whilst safeguarding the community's interests, environmentally sensitive areas and residential amenity.