Objectives

1. Enhance and protect the heritage significance of the Upper Canal and respect its rural landscape setting.
2. Ensure that new development is set back and visually screened from the Upper Canal.
3. Provide public access along the Upper Canal perimeter for heritage interpretation purposes, while ensuring the security of the Upper Canal is maintained at all times.
4. Minimise risks to public safety.
5. Prevent stormwater, treated effluent or other pollutants from entering the Upper Canal system.

Controls

1. A safety fence must be erected along the southern boundary of residential Precinct 4 and the southern and eastern boundaries of Precinct 5 (including the area between Precincts 4 and 5 that adjoins the Upper Canal). The fence must be designed to satisfy the security requirements of Water NSW without being detrimental to the heritage significance of the Upper Canal. Consideration must be to soften the visual impact of the fence from the Upper Canal and from the development.  The fence must be installed by the developer as part of the subdivision works occurring adjacent to the Upper Canal.
2. The stormwater system along the boundaries of Precincts 4, 5 and 6 that adjoin the Upper Canal must be designed to ensure that stormwater during a 1% AEP flood event will not enter the Upper Canal. Management measures must accommodate and not impede flows from the trails, drains, banks/berms, pipes/flumes/culverts/siphons that convey stormwater across the Upper Canal.
3. The reuse of treated effluent in the vicinity of the Upper Canal is to incorporate an irrigation system that is designed to avoid the potential for contaminated runoff as well as airborne contaminants to adversely impact on water in the Upper Canal.
4. Any development adjacent to the Upper Canal and roads crossing the Upper Canal must be designed and constructed to minimise damage to the Upper Canal from vibration and from cut and fill works. Construction techniques must satisfy the requirements of the Water NSW.
5. Further reference must be made to Development adjoining Upper Canal System within Part 2 Chapter 2.15 Development Adjoining Upper Canal System of this DCP.