Urban Planning Strategy and Principal Local Environmental Plan project

Council's town planning controls are being reviewed to help ensure Ashfield remains a sustainable and vibrant place to live, work and play. The review process involves preparing a new Local Environmental Plan (LEP), which will apply to the whole Ashfield Council area. An Urban Planning Strategy will also be prepared to underpin the content of the new LEP. This will communicate a medium to long-term vision (25 years) and framework for a wide spectrum of town planning related issues such as housing, open space and employment.

The LEP will control development and guide planning decisions made by Council to achieve development outcomes compatible with the preferred role and character of different areas of Ashfield Municipality. The new LEP will replace the Ashfield Local Environmental Plan 1985 . The LEP must be prepared consistent with a standard format introduced by the State Government but will also include specific provisions applying to Ashfield. As part of the process, other planning controls such as those included in Ashfield Development Control Plan 2007 will be reviewed to ensure they are consistent with the new LEP.

Preparation of the Planning Strategy and new LEP will be undertaken during 2008. Council will work closely with the community, including key stakeholders and interest groups, to help guide the direction of Ashfield's new planning controls (please read our community engagement principles for more information). It's important that we all work together to identify and shape what Ashfield Municipality should look like in the near future.

If you would like to register your interest in this project please Email us at ashcncl@ashfield.nsw.gov.au fax us on (02) 9716 1911 or write to Council at PO Box 1145 Ashfield 1800. You can also telephone our Customer Service Centre on (02) 9716 1800 and ask to speak to a Planning Coordinator concerning the new Ashfield LEP and Urban Planning Strategy. Please quote File Reference T05/64 – Ashfield Principal LEP if writing to Council.

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