85Dunmore Wetland Catchment Protection Area

85 Dunmore Wetland Catchment Protection Area

85 Dunmore Wetland Catchment Protection Area

(1) Consent must not be granted to the carrying out of any development on land identified as “Dunmore Wetland Catchment Protection Area” on the map unless the following ecological objectives of State Environmental Planning Policy No 14—Coastal Wetlands will be given effect in relation to land designated as Wetland No 374b on the map referred to in that policy—

(a) utilisation of the wetland habitat by migratory species listed on the JAMBA and CAMBA international migratory species agreements, being species that are recorded as using the wetland habitat,

(b) utilisation of the wetland habitat by regional wetland species, being species that are recorded as using the wetland habitat,

(c) environmental health of waterways within the Minnamurra River Catchment.

(2) In assessing whether a development proposal will give effect to the ecological objectives referred to in subclause (1), the consent authority must have regard to the following—

(a) protection of defined wetland values,

(b) protection of threatened species habitat,

(c) facilitation of land management activities within the catchment which are consistent with paragraphs (a) and (b).