Appendix A - 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     No acceptable outcome provided.       Dwelling House is accepted
limited to those which are                                                subject to requirements in this
compatible with agriculture and                                           zone.
the protection of environmental
and landscape values.
PO2                                 AO2.1                                 Performance Outcome
Development does not result in      Development that is incompatible      The dwelling will be located
the loss or diminished productive   with agricultural activities is not   within 200m of agricultural land
capacity of Agricultural Land       located on Agricultural Land          and is therefore triggered to code
Conservation Area.                  Conservation Area and an              assessment.      However       the
                                    adequate separation area              dwelling is to be located a
                                    between the development and           significant distance from all
                                    the Agricultural Land                 boundaries.
                                    Conservation Area is provided.
                                                                          The location of the dwelling
                                    AO2.2
                                                                          house will not diminish the
                                    Where there is an overriding need
                                                                          productive capacity of adjoining
                                    for incompatible development to
                                                                          agricultural land.
                                    be located on Agricultural Land
                                    Conservation Area, the
                                                                          The dwelling house will not result
                                    development does not have an
                                                                          in irreversible impact to the
                                    irreversible impact on the
                                                                          productive capacity of the land.
                                    productive capacity of
                                    Agricultural Land Conservation
                                                                          The use of a dwelling house is
                                    Area.
                                                                          consistent within the rural zone
                                                                          and therefore the ability for this
                                    AO2.3                                 site to have a dwelling house on it
                                    Where located in the Agricultural     should not be impacted.
                                    Land Conservation Area
                                    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
                                    No sensitive land use is
                                    established closer than 200
                                    metres from land on an adjacent
                                    property included in the Rural
                                    zone and mapped as Agricultural
                                    Land Conservation Area as shown
                                    in Agricultural Land Overlap Maps
                                    in schedule 2.