29Development within an environmental conservation area

29 Development within an environmental conservation area

29 Development within an environmental conservation area

(1) This section applies to land within the Sydney Olympic Park site that is shown on the Environmental Conservation Areas Map as within an environmental conservation area.

(2) Despite any other provision of this Appendix, the following development may only be carried out with development consent on land within an environmental conservation area—

(a) filling, clearing, draining or dredging the land,

(b) constructing a levee on the land,

(c) removing or destroying any vegetation on the land.

(3) Before granting development consent to development on land within an environmental conservation area, the consent authority must consider the likely effect of the proposed development on that environmental conservation area.

(4) Development consent must not be granted for development on land to which this section applies if, in the opinion of the consent authority, the development would reduce significantly the ecological value of that environmental conservation area.