Schedule 1 Ecologically sustainable development goals

Schedule 1 Ecologically sustainable development goals

(Clause 7)

Agriculture

To retain productive capacity of high class agricultural land and the continued use of rural lands for sustainable agriculture.

Biodiversity

To protect and enhance valuable natural environments, including riparian and wildlife corridors or links, core conservation areas and areas of high conservation value.

Wildlife habitats

To achieve a network of representative native habitats, including wildlife and riparian links, to support native flora and fauna and enhance biodiversity conservation objectives.

Cultural heritage

To protect and preserve items and places of heritage significance, including the escarpment, which have natural and cultural heritage significance for our community.

To protect and preserve items, sacred sites and places which are important to the Aboriginal peoples of the Illawarra.

To ensure the preservation of the landscape and special scenic qualities of the rural area.

Water resources

To protect, enhance and restore the rivers, aquifers, wetlands and other water sources, their associated ecosystems, ecological processes and their water quality.

Settlement

To ensure that rural settlement that—

(a) is ancillary to and supports other rural land uses, and

(b) protects the agricultural potential of rural land, and

(c) does not occur in locations that pose a risk to public safety due to hazards including flood, land slip and bush fire, and

(d) is compatible with the scenic and cultural heritage of the rural landscape, and

(e) protects or enhances, or protects and enhances, nature conservation areas and habitat corridors and their associated values, functions and processes, and

(f) minimises and, where possible, avoids land use conflicts with agricultural uses and mineral extraction.

Mineral extraction

To carefully manage extractive industry so as to—

(a) minimise potential conflicts with surrounding land uses, and

(b) protect and enhance adjoining ecologically significant areas, and

(c) avoid rendering important mineral resources unavailable for future possible extraction, and