2014-08-19 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda - Pages 1-101

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                19 AUGUST 2014


3.    Agricultural Uses

It is proposed the Agricultural land use definitions be amended as follows:
 The definition of Cultivation be amended to qualify that it 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 definition of Cultivation Type 1 Traditional be amended to clarify that it involves the
   growing of plants or plant material where dependent on the cultivation of soil and at a scale
   exceeding 20 fruit or nut trees or more than 100m 2 of any other crop. Cultivation of a lesser
   scale is exempt from the planning scheme.
 The definition of Cultivation Type 2 Intensive be edited to qualify that it involves growing
   plants on an imported media or requiring multiple applications of fertilisers, pesticides,
   fungicides or herbicides each season or where artificial lights or containers are used. Further
   examples of the use are greenhouse and shade-house plant production, hydroponic farms,
   wholesale plant supply, sugar cane farming, turf farming and mushroom farming.
 The definition of Animal Husbandry Type 1 Traditional be amended to include free-range
   poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese, guineafowl and turkeys) and that poultry and egg
   production not be classified as Type 2 Intensive until the scale exceeds 1,000 birds or a
   density of 250 birds per hectare. This is in keeping with the recent State Interest Guideline
   for Agriculture.
 Also under the definition of Animal Husbandry, the keeping of one pet pig or one rooster be
   exempt and therefore not subject to the planning scheme, however local laws will still prevent
   these in urban areas. Two or more pigs or roosters would still be considered a land use
   subject to the planning scheme.

Both Cultivation Type 1 and Animal Husbandry Type 1 are proposed to be consistent and self -
assessable in the Rural Settlement Zone and the self-assessment criteria will determine if the lot
is large enough for the use (they are already self-assessable in the Rural Zone). For traditional
cultivation if the acceptable solutions cannot be met, code assessment would be required. For
traditional animal husbandry if the solution cannot be met, impact assessment would be required.

New code provisions are proposed as follows:

Cultivation:

Lot Size for Cultivation Type 1
Outcome: Cultivation occurs on a lot that is of a       Solution: The cultivation use is conducted
sufficient size to reasonably accommodate the use and   on a site at least 1 hectare in area.
mitigate potential nuisance arising from noise, dust,
odour and other emissions or contaminants generated
by the use.




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