Town Planning Cover Letter - MCU20-146

                          PLANNING SCHEME CODE ASSESSMENT

A review of the relevant Planning Scheme codes has been undertaken which confirms the
proposed development complies with all of the Acceptable and Performance Outcomes of the
applicable codes, with the exception of the below.

RURAL ZONE CODE


Performance Outcome               Acceptable Outcome                 Response

PO2                                 AO2.4                            As shown in the figure below,
Development does not result         No ​sensitive land use is        the site has a width of
in the loss or diminished           established closer than 200      approximately 91m. In this
productive    capacity    of        metres from land on an           regard, it is not possible to
Agricultural           Land         adjacent property included       achieve    compliance with
Conservation Area​.                 in the Rural zone and            AO2.4.
                                    mapped as A ​ gricultural Land
Editor’s Note​—Agricultural Land Conservation Area as shown
Conservation Areas are shown on in ​Agricultural Land Overlap
the ​Agricultural Land Overlay Maps
in Schedule 2                       Maps​ in schedule 2.




                                                                     Moreover,      the    mapped
                                                                     Agricultural             Land
                                                                     Conservation Area shown is
                                                                     land within a road reserve
                                                                     and cannot be used for
                                                                     agricultural purposes. In this
                                                                     regard, it is considered that
                                                                     the proposed development
                                                                     will not result in the loss of
                                                                     diminished          productive
                                                                     capacity of the mapped
                                                                     Agricultural             Land
                                                                     Conservation Area and is
                                                                     considered compliant with
                                                                     PO2.

Setbacks                          AO8.4                              The proposal does not
PO8                               In     addition    to  the         achieve     compliance with
Notwithstanding            that   circumstances of AO8.1, to         AO8.4(2) and (3) (noting that
intensive rural activities may    AO8.3 above, buildings and         (1), (4) and (5) are not
need greater separation           structures      meet   the         applicable to this proposal).
distances, buildings and          following minimum boundary
other      structures       are   setbacks:                          As can be seen in the overlay



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