3Aims of plan

3 Aims of plan

3 Aims of plan

The aims of this plan are as follows—

(aa) to protect and promote the use and development of land for arts and cultural activity, including music and other performance arts,

(a) to provide a comprehensive rural planning framework based on the principles of ecologically sustainable development,

(b) to establish ecologically sustainable development goals and require those goals to be taken into consideration when determining development applications,

(c) to ensure that the primary use of prime agricultural land and other land in the 1 (a) Agriculture Zone is for sustainable agricultural pursuits and associated development that support a diversified range of agricultural uses,

(d) to preserve and enhance the visual rural landscape character of land in the 1 (rl) Rural Landscape Zone,

(e) to provide for the management of the extraction of mineral resources in a manner that has regard to the surrounding land uses and end-use options of the altered landscape while minimising the environmental impacts of mineral extraction,

(f) to protect, enhance and manage environmentally important land having special aesthetic, historic, ecological or conservation values for the benefit of present and future generations.

cl 3: Am 2020 (724), Sch 2[1].