Objectives

1. Ensure that intensive plant agriculture is compatible with the rural environment;
2. Minimise any adverse impact of intensive plant agriculture on surrounding properties; and
3. Minimise the environmental impact of intensive plant agriculture on surrounding areas and watercourses.

Controls

1. The minimum lot size required to undertake intensive plant agriculture is 2 hectares.
2. The following setbacks apply to all buildings and structures associated with intensive plant agriculture:
   
   

   Table 6-1: Setbacks

   Front boundary	20m
   Side and rear boundary	5m
   Watercourses	40m

3. Only new and durable materials must be used in the construction of greenhouses/igloos/market gardens.
4. A suitable landscape screening or buffer must be established between any boundary and greenhouses/igloos/market gardens to effectively mitigate the visual impact and land use conflict from the development.
5. The landscape screening or buffers must be established through planting trees or shrubs (minimum 1.5m in height when mature), this should occur when any structures are erected.
6. On unsewered sites, development must be in accordance with Council’s Sewage Management Strategy.
7. A Water Cycle Management Plan (WCMP) detailing how water will be sourced, stored, used, treated and recycled for the agricultural operation must be provided with any development application. The WCMP must demonstrate that the operation will not significantly impact on the total water cycle beyond the boundaries of the site.
8. Where the proposed use of the site is odour generating, an Odour Impact Assessment will be required.