Landscape Setting

Objectives

1. Conserve significant natural features of the site and contribute to effective management of biodiversity;
2. Conserve trees and other vegetation of ecological, heritage, aesthetic and cultural significance and
3. Enhance the existing streetscape and promote a scale and density of planting that softens the visual impact of buildings and other infrastructure.

Controls

1. Natural features of the site, such as trees and other vegetation, rock outcrops, cliffs, ledges, Indigenous species and vegetation communities should be retained where appropriate; and must be enhanced with a revegetation strategy for the site.
2. Landscaping is to enhance the visual setting and accentuate the design qualities of the built form. Landscaping solutions are to be used to create a screening effect for visually obtrusive land uses or building elements.
3. Landscaping should encourage the development of a tree canopy to soften the built environment and to encourage the continuity of the landscape pattern.

Land Use Conflicts

Objectives

1. Minimise rural land use conflict through a number of strategies including provision of land use buffers, land use regulation and encouragement of best practice in rural land practices; and
2. Preserve rural resources by ensuring that land is not effectively sterilised by being developed or encroached upon by urban or other incompatible uses.

Controls

1. Proposed development must demonstrate consideration of existing rural operations and surrounding land uses and impacts on the proposed development.
2. Buffers or other measures must be implemented to ensure that residences or other sensitive receiving environments are not adversely affected by noise, odour, chemicals, or the like.
3. Where there is potential for the proposed rural industry / agricultural use to generate noise and/or odour impacts, a noise and/or odour impact assessment must be carried out by a suitably experienced and qualified person(s) and provided with the development application.