Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9—Extractive Industry (No 2) (Amendment No 1) (1997-402) [GG No 91 of 15.8.1997, p 6363] (NSW)

1997 No 402

New South Wales

Sydney Regional Environmental Plan

No 9—Extractive Industry (No 2)

(Amendment No 1)

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning, make the following regional environmental plan under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

CRAIG KNOWLES MP

Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning

Sydney, 11 August 1997

1 Name of plan

This plan is Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9—

Extractive Industry (No 2) (Amendment No 1).

2 Aims of this plan

This plan aims:

(a)	to replace the requirement that a development control plan be prepared before development consent is granted to allow the extraction of sand in the Maroota locality with a requirement that a number of matters be considered by the consent authority, and
(b)	to correct a number of anomalies identified in Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9—Extractive Industry (No 2), and
(c)	to exclude from that plan a site which has ceased operation, and
(d)	to extend that plan to two additional sites.

Published in Gazette No 91 of 15 August 1997, page 6363 Page 1

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3     Land to which this plan applies

This plan applies to land within the local government areas of Baulkham Hills, Hornsby, Wyong and Gosford, which comprise part of the land declared under section 4 (6) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (by order published in Gazette No 185 of 11 December 1981, at page 638 1) to be a region that is known as the Sydney Region.

4     Amendment of Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9— Extractive Industry (No 2)

Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9—Extractive Industry

(No 2) is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 4)

[1]       Clause 11

Omit the clause. Insert instead:

11 Special requirements for extractive industry at Maroota

(1)

This clause applies to land described in Schedule 2.

(2)

The council must not grant consent to the carrying out of development for the purpose of extractive industry on land to which this clause applies unless the council is satisfied that the proposed development:

(a)	is unlikely to have a significant adverse impact on the Maroota groundwater resource or on other groundwater users in the region, and
(b)	will conserve the environmentally sensitive and significant areas and features of the Maroota locality, including the environment of threatened species, populations and ecological communities, and
(c)	will involve controlled and limited access points to main roads, and
(d)	will result in a final landform capable of supporting sustainable agricultural production or other post-extraction land uses compatible with the established character and the landscape and natural quality of the Maroota locality.

[2]        Schedule 1, Division 1

Omit item 18.

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Schedule 1 Amendments

[3]       Schedule 1, Division 9

Omit the Division. Insert instead:

Division 9

Dimensional sandstone quarries of regional

significance

1         The land covered by Permissive Occupancies Nos 55/113 Gosford, and 88/10 Gosford (Wondabyne), Gosford Quarries.

2         The land covered by Permissive Occupancy No 66/91, Gosford (Somersby), Gosford Quarries.

3          The land covered by Permissive Occupancy No 54/54, Gosford (Piles Creek), Gosford Quarries.

4         Lots 11, 12, 13 and 14, D.P. 618324, Somersby, Tydds Quarry.

5         Lot 1, D.P. 522099, Somersby, Melocco Quarries.

6         The land covered by Permissive Occupancy No 79/104, Gosford (Mount White), Gosford Quarries.

7          The land shown edged heavy black on the map marked “Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 9—Extractive Industry (No 2) (Amendment No 1)” held in the head office of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Mount White, Central Coast (Sandstone).

8          The land covered by Special Lease 1988/2 Gosford, (Somersby), Sandstones of Australia.

9         The land covered by Special Lease 1973/7 (Lot 173, D.P. 755246), Quarry Road, Somersby, Gosford Quarries.