Appendix A - Code Assessment

                                           Rural Zone Code

Performance outcomes                Acceptable outcomes                   Compliance
Role and function
PO1                             AO1                                       A dwelling house is a compatible
Land uses in the Rural zone are No acceptable outcome provided.           use as there are many other
limited to those which are                                                dwellings within the rural zone.
compatible with agriculture and                                           The dwelling is appropriately
the protection of environmental                                           sized for the site.
and landscape values.
PO2                                 AO2.1                                 Complies
Development does not result in      Development that is incompatible      The dwelling is not located on
the loss or diminished productive   with agricultural activities is not   agricultural land.
capacity of Agricultural Land       located on Agricultural Land
Conservation Area.                  Conservation Area and an
                                    adequate separation area
                                    between the development and
                                    the Agricultural Land
                                    Conservation Area is provided.
                                    AO2.2                             Complies
                                    Where there is an overriding need The dwelling is not located on
                                    for incompatible development to agricultural land.
                                    be located on Agricultural Land
                                    Conservation Area, the
                                    development does not have an
                                    irreversible impact on the
                                    productive capacity of
                                    Agricultural Land Conservation
                                    Area.


                                    AO2.3                                 Complies
                                    Where located in the Agricultural     The dwelling is not located on
                                    Land Conservation Area                agricultural land.
                                    accommodation is of a temporary
                                    or semi-permanent nature (such
                                    as tents, yurts, relocatable
                                    dwellings or recreational vehicles)
                                    or it adaptively reuses well-
                                    established rural buildings.
                                    AO2.4                                 Performance Outcome
                                    No sensitive land use is              The dwelling will be located
                                    established closer than 200           within 200m of the agricultural
                                    metres from land on an adjacent       land area. This does result in the
                                    property included in the Rural        diminished productive capacity of
                                    zone and mapped as Agricultural       the Agricultural Land
                                    Land Conservation Area as shown       Conservation Area. There is only a
                                    in Agricultural Land Overlap Maps     small amount of land on the site
                                    in schedule 2.                        within the overlay.

                                                                          The overlay should not prevent
                                                                          the site being developed for a
                                                                          dwelling house. The dwelling is