34Flooding

34 Flooding

34 Flooding

(1) Objectives

• to minimise future potential flood damage by ensuring that only appropriate compatible development occurs on flood liable land.

• to minimise the adverse effect of flooding on the community.

(2) Where, in the consent authority’s opinion, land is likely to be subject to flooding, then it must not grant consent to development on that land unless it has considered—

(a) the extent and nature of the flooding hazard affecting the land, and

(b) whether or not the development would increase the risk or severity of flooding of other land in the vicinity, and

(c) whether the risk or severity of flooding affecting the development could be reasonably mitigated, and

(d) the impact of the development on emergency services, and

(e) the provisions of Section A3—Development of Flood Liable Land of Tweed Development Control Plan.

cl 34: Am 2007 (157), Sch 1 [6].