Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan 2015

This Plan aims to make local environmental planning provisions for land in Ku-ring-gai in accordance with the relevant standard environmental planning instrument under section 3.20 of the Act.

The particular aims of this Plan are as follows—

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

to guide the future development of land and the management of environmental, social, economic, heritage and cultural resources within Ku-ring-gai,

to protect, enhance and sustainably manage the biodiversity, natural ecosystems, scenic values, water resources and ecological processes within the catchments of Ku-ring-gai for the benefit of current and future generations,

to maintain and improve water quality within the catchments of Ku-ring-gai,

to facilitate adaptation to climate change,

to manage risks to the community and the environment in areas subject to natural hazards and risks,

to recognize, protect and conserve Ku-ring-gai’s indigenous and non-indigenous cultural heritage,

to ensure that development does not conflict with the hierarchy of commercial centres in Ku-ring-gai,

to encourage a diversity of employment within Ku-ring-gai,

to encourage a variety of housing types within Ku-ring-gai,

to achieve land use relationships that promote the efficient use of infrastructure,

to facilitate good management of public assets and promote opportunities for social, cultural and community activities,

to facilitate development that complements and enhances amenity for residential uses and public spaces,

to establish a hierarchy of commercial centres for Ku-ring-gai,

to facilitate development of the commercial centres to enhance Ku-ring-gai’s economic role and cater to the retail and commercial needs of the local community,

to protect the character of low density residential areas and the special aesthetic values of land in the Ku-ring-gai area.

This Plan applies to the land identified on the Land Application Map.

(Repealed)

A reference in this Plan to a named map adopted by this Plan is a reference to a map by that name—

approved by the local plan-making authority when the map is adopted, and

as amended or replaced from time to time by maps declared by environmental planning instruments to amend or replace that map, and approved by the local plan-making authority when the instruments are made.

(Repealed)

Any 2 or more named maps may be combined into a single map. In that case, a reference in this Plan to any such named map is a reference to the relevant part or aspect of the single map.

Any such maps are to be kept and made available for public access in accordance with arrangements approved by the Minister.

For the purposes of this Plan, a map may be in, and may be kept and made available in, electronic or paper form, or both.

All local environmental plans and deemed environmental planning instruments applying only to the land to which this Plan applies are repealed.

All local environmental plans and deemed environmental planning instruments applying to the land to which this Plan applies and to other land cease to apply to the land to which this Plan applies.

If a development application has been made before the commencement of this Plan in relation to land to which this Plan applies and the application has not been finally determined before that commencement, the application must be determined as if this Plan had not commenced.

An amendment made to this plan by Mosman Local Environmental Plan Amendment (Exempt and Complying Development Codes and Housing—Dual Occupancies) 2025 does not apply to a development application made, but not finally determined, before the commencement of the amendment.

A development application made, but not finally determined, before the commencement of State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Ku-ring-gai Station Precincts) 2025 must be determined as if the policy had not commenced.

This Plan is subject to the provisions of any State environmental planning policy that prevails over this Plan as provided by section 3.28 of the Act.

The following State environmental planning policies (or provisions) do not apply to the land to which this Plan applies—

For the purpose of enabling development on land in any zone to be carried out in accordance with this Plan or with a consent granted under the Act, any agreement, covenant or other similar instrument that restricts the carrying out of that development does not apply to the extent necessary to serve that purpose.

This clause does not apply—

to a covenant imposed by the Council or that the Council requires to be imposed, or

to any relevant instrument within the meaning of section 13.4 of the Crown Land Management Act 2016, or

to any conservation agreement within the meaning of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, or

to any Trust agreement within the meaning of the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001, or

to any property vegetation plan within the meaning of the Native Vegetation Act 2003, or

to any biobanking agreement within the meaning of Part 7A of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, or

to any planning agreement within the meaning of Subdivision 2 of Division 7.1 of the Act.

This clause does not affect the rights or interests of any public authority under any registered instrument.

Under section 3.16 of the Act, the Governor, before the making of this clause, approved of subclauses (1)–(3).