New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

YASS VALLEY LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2013 - 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 and enhance the biodiversity of Yass Valley.

• To protect the geologically significant areas of Yass Valley.

• To maintain the rural character of Yass Valley.

• To encourage the use of rural land for agriculture and other forms of development that are associated with rural industry or that require an isolated or rural location.

• To ensure that the location, type and intensity of development is appropriate, having regard to the characteristics of the land, the rural environment and the need to protect significant natural resources, including prime crop and pasture land.

• To prevent the subdivision of land on the fringe of urban areas into small lots that may prejudice the proper layout of future urban areas.