Euro LEP finally gets council nod

The Mayor of the Eurobodalla Shire on the New South Wales far south coast, Fergus Thomson, says he is satisfied there will be no further opposition to the council’s controversial Local Environmental Plan.

The plan has been sent to the State Planning Department but only after protracted discussions and meetings to thrash out problems surrounding the LEP.

A number of councillors said they had serious problems relating to native vegetation and floor space ratios, but Councillor Thomson says the concerns have been resolved.

Councillor Thomson says there will be a call for public submissions shortly.

“It is a draft, and so we will then receive submissions if people have some things that they see as, that are not meeting their sort of personal needs and concerns,” he said.

“So we’ll look at those.”

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Comment sought on council planning documents

The Port Macquarie-Hastings Council has completed a draft local environmental plan (LEP) and development control plan for the local government area.

The documents will go on public display for feedback from today.

The council’s Matt Rogers says the local environment plan will set in place the fundamental planning provisions for all properties.

“What they do is provide for zones that allow for particular uses of land or development to occur, like residential zones, commercial zones, industrial and rural, just to name the most common zones, and they also prescribe other requirements such as height limits on buildings and minimum lot sizes,” Mr Rogers said.

“This LEP and an accompanying development control plan which provides more detail about development design and other aspects of development will be on display for six weeks.

“We’ll be having a number of information sessions during that period and we encourage landowners to come in and talk to council’s planning staff.”