2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 81-167

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  25 MARCH 2014


Key Character elements identified for the area in Section 3.25.3 include:

Any new development in the Planning Area is to provide for the rural landscape character to be
retained, through low density of development, retention of vegetation, provision of large building
setbacks to road frontages and the use of architectural styles which respond to and reflect the
rural setting.

The water catchments of Lake MacDonald and Lake Weyba are to be protected from adverse
impacts of new development and intensification of existing development.

The water catchment areas of Lake Weyba and Lake MacDonald are to be managed to optimise
runoff water quality, particularly through:

• limitation of new development or intensification of existing development;
• retention of vegetation, particularly adjacent to waterways and major drainage lines;
• use of best environmental and land management practices;
• use of best practice waste (including on-site effluent) disposal methods.

The banks and foreshores of Lake Weyba are to remain in public ownership, where existing. Any
new development on land parcels that have private frontage to Lake Weyba should dedicate lake
frontage into public tenure.

The planning scheme states the intent for the Lake Weyba Catchment Area of the Water Supply
Resource Area precinct:
The intention of this Precinct is to protect the valuable water and other ecological resources in
the region from pollution and to provide for the maintenance or improvement of the quality of
surface or ground water entering Lake Weyba. Any proposal which introduces a potentially
significant source of water contamination or other degradation into the catchment area is
considered contrary to the desired character of the Precinct and an undesirable environmental
outcome.
It is intended that the area’s rural or natural character be maintained, particularly through the
retention, restoration or enhancement of natural vegetation.
Development within the catchment should be very restricted and consistent with principles of
sound water catchment area management.
Any development in the catchment area is intended to provide for:
(a) the adequate protection of areas of habitat identified as having conservation significance
       such that they remain ecologically sustainable;
(b) the scenic values of forested areas to be respected;
(c) the retention, restoration or enhancement of vegetation in order to:
       •     maintain soil stability, particularly on steep or slip prone areas,
       •     achieve benefits to runoff water quality,
       •     protect native flora and fauna, and
       •     contribute to scenic quality;
(d) the treatment and disposal of sewage effluent such that it does not cause environmental
       harm by way of degrading water quality and that it remains ecologically sustainable; and
(e) earthworks and drainage works to be carried out so as not to allow unacceptable sediment
       runoff from the site.




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