PLANNING ISSUES. It is the intent of these standards to ensure that this community recognizes and encourages the pedestrian while fully accommodating the automobile as a fact of life.
PLANNING ISSUES. Within the State of NSW, planning and development is carried out under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000. Under the legislation, the Minister for Planning has the ability to declare certain projects to be Critical Infrastructure ie, the project may be considered to be essential to the State for economic, social or environmental reasons. The NSW Department of Planning (2009) specifies that “the critical infrastructure provisions: ensure the timely and efficient delivery of essential infrastructure projects allow the Government and the planning system to rapidly and readily respond to the changing needs of the State provide certainty in the delivery of these projects provide for rigorous scrutiny to ensure environmental outcomes are appropriate focus on delivering outcomes essential to the NSW community.” In this particular case, the Silverton Wind Farm Development was declared a Major Project and Critical Infrastructure under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
PLANNING ISSUES. The evaluation has identified a number of important planning issues, as follows. The current low buy-back price limits out-grower profits and creates risk of credit breaches. The proposed processing plant and feed mill may entail suboptimal use of resources. Expecting that thinly-trained residents could quickly and in substantial numbers become successful part-time out-growers was unrealistic. IAP practice inhibits growth by failing to reduce stocking density as fish get bigger. IAP relied on overoptimistic expectations as to trash fish prices; harvest grow-out times and fish weights; micro-credit interest rates; food conversion ratios and costs per unit of yield; and the ease of recruiting and retaining competent technical officers. (Annexes 2.12, 2.14) ANG management has indicated willingness to alter planning on some or all of these items. Implementation Issues The evaluation has identified a number of important implementation issues, as follows. Technical training and follow-up has given out-growers inadequate knowledge and experience for optimal aquaculture operations. Micro-credit arrangements have achieved mixed success and remain vulnerable in the absence of ‘crop’ insurance, alignment between buy-back and market prices and adequate financial management training for out-growers. Adequate out-grower financial management and record-keeping has not been achieved. Increased feeding to achieve better growth has contravened both IAP recommendations and successful international practice, which indicates reduced feed per biomass as fish grow. ANG management has shown strong interest in ameliorating these problems. Harvest Losses On two occasions, entire cages of fish have disappeared at the brink of harvest.
PLANNING ISSUES. 7.1 The main planning issues concerning the proposal are the impact of the development on the appearance of the property and the area and on neighbours’ living conditions.
PLANNING ISSUES. 7.1 The key planning issue to consider is whether there is a benefit from the proposed variation to the S52 agreement in terms of public safety commensurate with the limitations on the Council’s wider objective of securing public riverside access.
