24AIntensive plant growing development in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment

24A Intensive plant growing development in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment

24A Intensive plant growing development in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment

(1) The objective of this clause is to require development consent for development with the potential to have an adverse impact on water quality in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment.

(2) Despite any other provision of this Plan, development for the purposes of intensive plant growing is permitted with development consent on land in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment.

(3) In this clause—

intensive plant growing on land means market gardening, fungi growing, fruit growing, flower growing, viticulture or the like for commercial purposes, but does not include growing—

(a) wheat, oats, oilseed, legumes or other field crops, or

(b) any species of plant for pastures.

Sydney Drinking Water Catchment has the same meaning as in State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021, Chapter 6.

cl 24A: Ins 2006 (289), Sch 1.10. Am 2011 (28), Sch 1.5; 2022 (72), Sch 1.49. Subst 2022 (629), Sch 3.10.