Proposed LEP and DCP Review

An LEP (Local Environmental Plan) is the main legal document that guides planning decisions and manages the way land is used within a local government area.

Through zoning and planning controls, an LEP is used to guide development, protect heritage and the environment as well as reserve land for open space, schools, transport or other public uses.

A DCP (Development Control Plan) supports an LEP through providing more detail regarding development controls.

The review of the LEP and DCP is intended to facilitate amendments to the documents to achieve the following objectives:

• Ensure the LEP and DCP are aligned with other relevant principals, strategies and plans.
• Amend ‘land use tables’ in the LEP to reflect actual and potential future uses of land within the Hunters Hill municipality.
• Amend ‘land use tables’ in the LEP to include additional land uses that are complimentary to certain land use zones.
• Remove specific land use listings in the LEP that are not required or not compatible with existing land uses.
• Improve battle axe block subdivision outcomes.
• Clarify and strengthen the provisions of the LEP and DCP to better achieve plan objectives.
• Amend clear heritage listing anomalies and errors.
• Specifically, in relation to the DCP, to restructure the document to make it easier to understand and administer.

• Specific development proposals (e.g. Montefiore proposal).
• Planning controls applicable to specific sites, where not related to the scope outlined by the objectives of this review.
• Potential changes to heritage controls that require additional studies or assessments.
• Planning controls related to past and future master planning investigations.

These meetings are providing important feedback about suggested pathways and content into the LEP/DCP review. Members of the community have also been speaking with staff on a regular basis as well as providing written feedback. Written feedback is important as it provides the basis for reports to both Council and State Government.

The next step in the process is for Council’s Strategic Planner to develop a comprehensive Scoping Report that will include feedback received to date. This Scoping Report will come to both Council and the community for comment before it will go to the State Government for comment.