Town Planning Report

                              town planning
                                     report


                        a land area greater than 2500 square metres and will     identified within the
                        result in six or more lots, or                           Natural Resources
                        (3) operational works for urban purposes that involve    Overlay Map – OM 3.5.
                        disturbing more than 2500 square metres of land.
                        The development application is to
                        be assessed against the following
                        requirements:
                        For a development application mentioned under the
                        heading ‘Receiving waters’
                        Development:
                        (1) avoids or otherwise minimises adverse impacts
                        on the environmental values of receiving waters,
                        arising from:
                        (a) altered stormwater quality or flows, and
                        (b) wastewater (other than contaminated stormwater
                        and sewage), and
                        (c) the creation or expansion of non-tidal artificial
                        waterways, and
                        (2) by demonstrating it complies with the SPP code:
                        Water quality (Appendix 3).



Natural hazards, risk   The development application is to be                     The      proposal      is
and resilience          assessed against the following requirements:             located within the
                        For all natural hazards:                                 existing     developed
                        Development:                                             Cooroy town centre. It
                        (1) avoids natural hazard areas or mitigates the risks   is not located within a
                        of the natural hazard to an acceptable or tolerable      Flood Hazard Area as
                        level, and                                               identified        within
                        (2) supports, and does not unduly burden, disaster       Flooding Overlay Map
                        management response or recovery capacity and             OM 3.3). It is therefore
                        capabilities, and                                        considered that the
                        (3) directly, indirectly and cumulatively avoids an      proposal          avoids
                        increase in the severity of the natural hazard and       natural hazard areas
                        the potential for damage on the site or to other         associated          with
                        properties, and                                          flooding.
                        (4) avoids risks to public safety and the environment
                        from the location of hazardous materials and
                        the release of these materials as a result of a
                        natural hazard, and
                        (5) maintains or enhances natural processes and the
                        protective function of landforms and vegetation
                        that can mitigate risks associated with the
                        natural hazard.




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