Code Assessment

                                                         Appendix A - Code Assessment
                                                                      Rural Zone Code

Performance outcomes                                    Acceptable outcomes                                    Compliance
Role and function
PO1                                                    AO1                                                     Complies
Land uses in the Rural zone are limited to those which No acceptable outcome provided.                         The development is for a dwelling house which is
are compatible with agriculture and the protection of                                                          compatible with the agricultural and environmental
environmental and landscape values.                                                                            values.


PO2                                                     AO2.1                                              Complies
Development does not result in the loss or diminished   Development that is incompatible with agricultural The dwelling house will not affect the productive
productive capacity of Agricultural Land Conservation   activities is not located on Agricultural Land capacity of the Agricultural Land Conservation Area.
Area.                                                   Conservation Area and an adequate separation area
                                                        between the development and the Agricultural Land
                                                        Conservation Area is provided.
                                                        AO2.2                                               Not applicable
                                                        Where there is an overriding need for incompatible Incompatible development is not proposed.
                                                        development to 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                                                  Performance Outcome
                                                        Where located in the Agricultural Land Conservation    The proposed dwelling is not a temporary structure
                                                        Area accommodation is of a temporary or semi-          but is a re-sited dwelling with a footprint of only 250m2
                                                        permanent nature (such as tents, yurts, relocatable    resulting in a site cover of 0.25%. It is not expected
                                                        dwellings or recreational vehicles) or it adaptively   that a development of this size will impact the capacity
                                                        reuses well-established rural buildings.               of the Agricultural Land Conservation Area.