New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WARREN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2012 - 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, enhance and conserve agricultural land in a manner that ensures that the primary role of land is for efficient and effective agricultural pursuits, managed in accordance with sustainable natural resource management principles.

• To protect water resources in the public interest.

• To protect areas of local, state, national and international significance for nature conservation, including areas with rare plants, wetlands and significant habitat.

• To permit rural industries that do not have a significant adverse impact on existing or potential agricultural production on adjoining land.

• To conserve and protect the Macquarie Marshes by encouraging and managing appropriate land uses and agricultural activities.