Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013

This Plan aims to make local environmental planning provisions for land in Shellharbour 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 encourage development that balances ecological sustainability, social justice principles of equality, access, rights and participation and economic viability,

to encourage a range of development, including diversity of housing types, employment, services and recreational opportunities that meet the needs of existing and future residents, visitors, business owners and workers of Shellharbour,

to enhance the amenity and characteristics of established residential areas,

to retain affordable housing opportunities as a way of ensuring a sustainable and inclusive community,

to encourage development that has considered safer by design principles so that potential impacts to life and property from crime is minimised,

to ensure development facilitates the economic and social vitality of Shellharbour City Centre as a major regional centre,

to improve connectivity and accessibility in Shellharbour and encourage development that enables walking, cycling and public transport usage,

to conserve, protect and enhance the heritage values of Shellharbour,

to protect, enhance and maintain significant landscapes with visual, scenic, historic, ecological or conservation value, including the Illawarra Escarpment, Lake Illawarra and the coastline, for the benefit of present and future generations,

to protect and conserve—

remnant native vegetation, and

soil stability by controlling development in accordance with land capability, and

water resources, water quality and wetland areas, natural flow patterns and their catchments and buffer areas,

to conserve the scenic and environmental resources of the land, including the protection of environmental assets such as native vegetation, waterways and wetlands and habitats for threatened species, populations and endangered ecological communities,

to recognise the importance of, and to retain the productive capacity of, agricultural land that contributes to the local economy,

to minimise risk to the community in areas subject to environmental hazards, particularly flooding, coastal inundation, bush fires, acid sulfate soils and unstable land.