2017-06-06 - P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 6 Draft Alignment Amendments Part 1 (Pages 1-907)

                                                                                                                                          Including amendments to 3 July 2017
2.11.1        Agricultural Uses & Use Classes




                                                                                                                         The Noosa Plan
               PRIMARY USE                               USE CLASS                               USE


                                                                                            Type 1 Traditional
                                                          Cultivation
                                                                                            Type 2 Intensive


                                                                                            Type 1 Traditional

             Agricultural Uses                          Animal husbandry
                                                                                            Type 2 Intensive


                                                                                            Type 1 Native
                                                        Forestry

                                                                                            Type 2 Plantation

              Agricultural Uses means any use or use class described below.
Cultivation means the growing of any plant for produce for commercial purposes, but does not
include trees to be harvested for timber or roadside stall. The use includes harvesting and the
storage and packing of produce and plants grown on the site and the ancillary repair and servicing
of machinery used on the site. The term includes the following types:
Type 1 Traditional        The growing of plants or plant material where dependent on the cultivation
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                          of soil and at a scale exceeding 20 fruit or nut trees or more than 100m of
                          any other crop.
Type 2 Intensive          The growing of any plants or plant material on an imported media or
                          requiring multiple applications of fertilisers, pesticides, fungicides or
                          herbicides each season or where artificial lights or containers are used.
                          The use includes greenhouse and shadehouse plant production,
                          hydroponic farms, wholesale plant supply, sugar cane farming, turf
                          farming and mushroom farming. The term does not include Forestry
                          Type 2 Plantation as separately defined.
Animal husbandry means the keeping, depasturing or, stabling of any animal, including birds,
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fish, crustaceans, insects or reptiles . The term includes the following types:
Type 1 Traditional        The use of premises for dairying, cattle grazing, animal breeding
                          establishments, holding yards, free-range poultry or hatcheries. The term
                          includes nil discharge aquaculture with a combined surface area of all
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                          ponds or tanks of 200m or less but does not include uses defined as
                          Animal husbandry Type 2 Intensive. The term includes keeping
                          animals at or above the following rate:

                                        Bee Hives                                                           4
                                        Caged Birds (excluding poultry)                                     19
                                        Cats                                                                4
                                        Cattle, camels, goats, sheep, and the like                          2
                                        Dogs                                                                4
                                        Horses                                                              4
                                        Pigs                                                                2
                                        Poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese,                          10
                                        guineafowl and turkeys but excluding roosters)
                                        Roosters                                                            2



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    Notwithstanding this land use definition Council’s Local Laws also apply to the keeping of animals in urban areas.



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