79Heritage control

79 Heritage control

79 Heritage control

In relation to heritage, development is to—

• conserve the environmental heritage and cultural significance of Warringah, and

• conserve existing significant fabric, settings, relics and views associated with the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas, and

• not adversely affect the heritage significance of heritage items and heritage conservation areas and their settings, and

• ensure that archaeological sites and places of Aboriginal significance are conserved, and

• ensure that the heritage conservation areas throughout Warringah retain their heritage significance.

In particular, before consent is granted for development that affects a heritage item or will be carried out within a heritage conservation area, the extent to which development would affect the heritage significance of the heritage item or heritage conservation area, including its setting, is to be assessed, including—

• its significance in Warringah, and

• the contribution which any building, work, relic, tree or place affected by the proposed development makes to this heritage significance, and

• the measures proposed to conserve the heritage significance of the heritage item or heritage conservation area, and

• whether any archaeological site or potential archaeological site would be adversely affected, and

• whether any landscape or horticultural features of heritage significance would be affected.

Applications for consent to development relating to heritage items classified by this plan as being of State or regional significance must not be granted unless the consent authority has considered a conservation management plan prepared by an appropriately qualified person.

Applications for consent to development relating to heritage items classified by this plan as being of local significance must not be granted unless the consent authority has considered a statement of heritage impact prepared by an appropriately qualified person, except where the consent authority is of the opinion that the proposed development constitutes extensive alterations or additions to the heritage item, in which case consent must not be granted unless the consent authority has considered a conservation plan.