Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011 (2011-680) (NSW)

Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011

Part 1 Preliminary

1.1 Name of Plan This Plan is Kiama Local Environmental Plan 2011.

1.1AA Commencement This Plan commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

1.2 Aims of Plan (1) This Plan aims to make local environmental planning provisions for land in Kiama in accordance with the relevant standard environmental planning instrument under section 3.20 of the Act. (2) The particular aims of this Plan are as follows— (aa) to protect and promote the use and development of land for arts and cultural activity, including music and other performance arts, (a) to provide planning controls for the Kiama area to achieve ecologically sustainable development principles while recognising the economic, environmental and social impacts and risks associated with climate change, (b) to maintain, protect and improve the natural environment including native vegetation, endangered ecological communities, natural habitat corridors, riparian land, groundwater dependent ecosystems and wetlands for their biodiversity values, (c) to conserve and protect the area's water resources, groundwater, waterways, and water quality for their biodiversity, ecological, health and recreational values, (d) to protect agricultural land and restrict its fragmentation for purposes other than primary production, (e) to protect and enhance the coastal and rural character of Kiama's rural towns, neighbourhoods and villages, and the characteristic scenic landscapes that contribute to its liveability and identity, (f) to consolidate future population growth and medium density housing primarily in locations near shops and public transport, (g) to cater for housing choice including affordable rental housing, affordable housing for first home buyers and housing for the aged and disabled and independent seniors, (h) to protect and maintain land used or to be used for employment in rural and urban areas, (i) to promote and co-ordinate the orderly and economic use and development of land, (j) to maintain, protect and enhance environmentally sensitive land for its biodiversity and ecological values, (k) to protect Kiama's cultural heritage.