State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021

Dictionary for Chapter 5 (section 5.5) abbreviations of agencies: C&NR (Vic) means the Victorian Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. CaLM means the NSW Department of Conservation and Land Management. DoP means the NSW Department of Planning. DWR means the NSW Department of Water Resources. EPA means the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Forestry Commission means the Forestry Commission of New South Wales. MDBC means the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. MSB means the NSW Maritime Services Board—Maritime Authority of NSW. NPWS means the National Parks and Wildlife Service. NSW Agriculture means the NSW Department of Agriculture. P&D (Vic) means the Victorian Department of Planning and Development. PWD means the NSW Public Works Department. RWC (Vic) means the Rural Water Corporation of Victoria. bank means a change of slope that defines the extent of the bed of the River Murray. bed means the land which contains the River Murray, including that which is alternately inundated or left bare from a rise or fall in the supply of water, but does not include any land inundated only in time of flood. consent authority means the Council for the local government area in which the proposed development is to be carried out. development is defined in the Act. Note. See also section 5.5(2). The expression means, in relation to land— (a) the erection of a building on that land, (b) the carrying out of a work in, on, over or under that land, (c) the use of that land or of a building or work on that land, and (d) the subdivision of that land. Land includes a bay, inlet, lagoon, lake or body of water, a river, stream or watercourse. flood liable land means land identified on the map as flood liable land. hazardous industry means an industry which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would pose a significant risk in relation to the locality— (a) to human health, life or property, or (b) to the biophysical environment. hazardous storage establishment means any establishment where goods, materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the establishment from existing or likely future development on the other land in the locality), would pose a significant risk in relation to the locality— (a) to human health, life or property, or (b) to the biophysical environment. offensive industry means an industry which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would emit a polluting discharge (for example, noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land in the locality. offensive storage establishment means any establishment where goods, materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the establishment from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would emit a polluting discharge (including, for example, noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land in the locality. potentially hazardous industry means an industry which, if it were to operate without employing any measures (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality) to reduce or minimise its impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land, would pose a significant risk in relation to the locality— (a) to human health, life or property, or (b) to the biophysical environment, and includes a hazardous industry and the use of a hazardous storage establishment. potentially offensive industry means an industry which, if it were to operate without employing any measures (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality) to reduce or minimise its impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land, would emit a polluting discharge (for example, noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land, and includes an offensive industry and the use of an offensive storage establishment. public authority means a public or local authority constituted by or under any Act, a Government department or a statutory body representing the Crown, and includes a person exercising functions on behalf of that authority, Department or body and also includes a public or local authority constituted under any Act of the Parliament of the Commonwealth, Victoria or South Australia, a government department of the Commonwealth, Victoria or South Australia, a statutory body representing the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, Victoria or South Australia and a person exercising functions on behalf of any such authority, department or body. River Management Plan means any development control plan, plan of management, study, strategy, guideline or the like, which has undergone a public participation process, which is consistent with the aims, objectives and principles of this Chapter and which is endorsed by the