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Community Participation Plan (Am No. 1)

Council staff have undertaken a review of the CPP considering submissions received from the community relating to the notification process of development applications.  As a result of the review, draft amendments to the CPP are proposed, addressing the following matters: 

Section 1.10 - Updating the description of Planning Agreements as a result of the new Planning Agreements Policy (recently considered by Council). 

  • Section 3.7 - Clarifying when minimum levels of notification apply. 
  • Section 3.10 - Clarifying how Council determines who is notified. 
  • Section 3.14.2.2 - Clarifying that the section only applies if an application is required to be notified. 
  • Section 3.14.4.4 - New sub-section outlining new notification requirements for development in specific rural zones and adjacent to a heritage item.     
  • Section 5.8 - Clarification of exhibition of draft Planning Agreements and amendments to Planning Agreements. 

 

New clause - Notification of development adjoining Heritage Items 

 

In response to community feedback, Council staff are proposing to include in the amendment a specific notification requirement for development that occurs on rural land adjoining a Heritage Item (excluding moveable Heritage Items). 

 

It is proposed that notification of the development is to be given to the landowners of both the Heritage Item and any other adjoining land.   Additional commentary has been added to Section 3.10 to provide guidance on defining adjoining land, particularly for rural holdings with multiple parcels. The proposed wording of the section is below: 

 

  1. Notification in relation to development adjoining Heritage Items 
  2. Where development is proposed on land zoned RU1 Primary Production, RU2 Rural Landscape or RU4 Primary Production Small Lots and adjoins a Heritage Item (excluding a moveable heritage item), as listed in Schedule 5 of the Bathurst Regional Local Environmental Plan 2014, Council will give notice to owners of adjoining land (including both the owners of the Heritage Item and any other adjoining landowner) of any development, excluding development types listed in section 1.10 of this plan. 


  3. Note 1: Where a Heritage Item only occupies part of a property, it is to be taken that the development adjoins the allotment upon which the heritage item is located. 

    Note 2: Section 3.10 of this Plan defines adjoining land.