New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PENRITH LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2002 (VILLAGES OF MULGOA AND WALLACIA) - REG 7

7 Aims and objectives of this plan

(1) For the purposes of achieving the objects of the Act, the aims and objectives of this plan are, in relation to:

(a) development within the Villages:

(i) to allow orderly and economic development within the Villages which is compatible with the rural and natural landscape and heritage of the area, and

(ii) to provide balanced opportunities for land uses in the Villages that:

(A) safeguard their vitality and viability, and

(B) promote their orderly and economic development, and

(C) promote their involvement in tourism, and their commercial and recreation potential, and

(iii) to provide for limited housing development opportunities that:

(A) cater for a demand for rural living, and

(B) provide housing opportunities for the local community, and

(C) provide for housing for an ageing population,

where this is consistent with the other aims and objectives described in this clause, and

(iv) to enable rural residential development where it is consistent with the conservation of the rural and natural landscape, and

(v) to outline matters for consideration in the determination of development applications, and

(b) preservation of rural character, to maintain and enhance:

(i) Penrith City's rural and urban harmony, and

(ii) the heritage and rural character of the Villages, and

(iii) the setting of Mulgoa and Wallacia within the rural landscape, and

(iv) the scenic quality and landscape features of the Mulgoa Valley, and

(c) ecologically sustainable development:

(i) to ensure protection of natural ecological elements within the Villages, especially within areas of ecological significance, and

(ii) to manage new development according to the principles of ecological sustainability, and

(iii) to conserve, protect and maintain riparian corridors, and

(iv) to ensure the protection of existing vegetation, fauna and water quality, and

(v) to encourage efficiency in water use and water conservation, and

(d) economic development of land:

(i) to protect and utilise the tourism potential of the Villages where it is consistent with the conservation of the rural and natural landscape, and

(ii) to minimise the cost to the community of fragmented and haphazard development of rural land by ensuring that development does not create unreasonable demands for the provision or extension of public amenities and services now or in the future, and

(e) traffic safety, to ensure that traffic-generating development is suitably located in the interests of amenity and to ensure that the safety and efficiency of roads are not adversely affected by development on adjacent land, and

(f) flooding, to control development in areas subject to flood hazard, and

(g) Aboriginal archaeological and cultural heritage, to identify and conserve items and sites of Aboriginal archaeological or cultural significance, and

(h) bushfire, to control development in areas subject to bushfire risk.

(2) The objectives of each zone are set out in Part 3.

(3) The objectives of each of the development controls for the Villages are set out in Part 4.