Business Paper - Hawkesbury City Council

Clause 18 – Provision of water, sewerage etc services
Electrical and telephone services are available to the site. It is considered that these
available services are satisfactory for the proposed development. Written evidence
that satisfactory arrangements for the provision/extension of telephone and electrical
services to this development will be required as a condition of consent.
A new onsite effluent disposal system will service the existing and proposed
buildings, and this system is considered satisfactory. The development will be
subject to on site collection of rainwater for reuse and a stormwater drainage and
treatment system will be installed.
Clause 28 – Development in the vicinity of heritage items
The subject land adjoins a property identified as a heritage item under Schedule 1 to
Hawkesbury Local Environmental Plan 1989 located at 663 Grose Vale Road, Grose
Wold. The heritage item (residence) situated on this adjoining property is
approximately 850m to the north of the development site. It is considered that the
proposed development will have no significant impact on the heritage value of this
item given that there is no visual connection between this item and the development.
Clause 36 – Clearing of land in certain environmental and other zones.
This Clause prohibits the felling of trees, filling or otherwise altering the surface level
of land without the consent of the Council. The development application includes the
removal of trees and earthworks.
Clause 37A – Development on land identified on Acid Sulfate Soils Planning
Map
The land affected by the development falls within Class 5 as identified on the Acid
Sulfate Soils Planning Map. The proposed development does not include any works
as defined within this Clause and therefore no further investigations in respect to acid
sulphate soils are required. The proposal is consistent with the requirements of this
Clause.
ii.
Draft Environmental Planning Instrument that is or has been placed on
exhibition and details of which have been notified to Council:
Draft Hawkesbury Local Environmental Plan 2011 applies to the proposal. The
exhibition of this draft Plan was undertaken from 5 February 2010 to 12 April 2010.
Under this Plan the subject land is proposed to be zoned RU4 Rural Small Holdings.
It is noted that many of the landuse definitions within the Draft Plan have been
changed from how they are currently defined within Hawkesbury Local Environmental
Plan 1989. As a result the proposed use no longer fit within the ‘recreation’
definitions and it is considered that the activity is best defined under the Draft Plan as
“place of public worship”, which means:
“a building or place used for the purpose of religious worship by a congregation or
religious group, whether or not the building or place is also used for counselling,
social events, instruction or religious training.” The accommodation on the site is
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