Objectives of zone as per Standard Instrument
To encourage sustainable primary industry production by maintaining and enhancing the natural resource base.
To encourage diversity in primary industry enterprises and systems appropriate for the area.
To minimise the fragmentation and alienation of resource lands.
To minimise conflict between land uses within this zone and land uses within adjoining zones.
Additional Objectives included in the current LEP's for each of the three shires are included below:
Bombala
• To enable other land uses that are associated with primary industry and that require an isolated or rural location or that support the tourism industry.
Cooma-Monaro
• To encourage land uses that are unlikely to generate significant additional traffic relative to the capacity and safety of a road, or create or increase a condition of ribbon development on any road.
• To encourage land uses that are unlikely to create unreasonable or uneconomic demands for the provision or extension of public amenities or services.
• To protect the water quality of receiving watercourses and groundwater systems.
• To protect the visual landscape values of the rural area.
Snowy River
• To promote tourism, educational and recreational development and living opportunities that are compatible with agricultural activities and the environmental, historical and cultural values of the zone.
• To ensure that development maintains and protects the scenic values and rural landscape characteristics of the zone through compatible, small-scale development.
RU1-Primary Production Allowable Development - Current
Permitted without consent
Environmental protection works; Extensive agriculture; Home occupations; Horticulture; ViticulturePermitted with consent
Agriculture; Air transport facilities; Airstrips; Animal boarding or training establishments; Aquaculture; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Boat building and repair facilities; Boat launching ramps; Boat sheds; Camping grounds; Caravan parks; Cellar door premises; Cemeteries; Charter and tourism boating facilities; Correctional centres; Crematoria; Depots; Dual occupancies (attached); Dwelling houses; Eco-tourist facilities; Education establishments; Environmental facilities; Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Farm stay accommodation; Flood mitigation works; Forestry; Funeral homes; Heavy industrial storage establishments; Helipads; Highway service centres; Home-based child care; Home businesses; Industrial training facilities; Industries; Information and education facilities; Intensive livestock agriculture; Intensive plant agriculture; Jetties; Landscaping material supplies; Marinas; Mooring pens; Moorings; Mortuaries; Neighbourhood shops; Open cut mining; Places of public worship; Plant nurseries; Public administration buildings; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (major); Recreation facilities (outdoor); Registered clubs; Roads; Roadside stalls; Rural industries; Rural supplies; Rural workers’ dwellings; Secondary dwellings; Service stations; Signage; Storage premises; Transport depots; Truck depots; Veterinary hospitals; Warehouse or distribution centres; Water recreation structuresProhibited
Self-storage units; Any other development not specified in item 2 or 3Permitted without consent
Environmental protection works; Extensive agriculture; Home-based child care; Home occupations; Horticulture; ViticulturePermitted with consent
Aquaculture; Building identification signs; Cellar door premises; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Intensive livestock agriculture; Intensive plant agriculture; Office premises; Open cut mining; Roads; Roadside stalls; Rural workers’ dwellings; Secondary dwellings; Any other development not specified in item 2 or 4Prohibited
Amusement centres; Boat building and repair facilities; Charter and tourism boating facilities; Commercial premises; Exhibition villages; Health services facilities; Industrial retail outlets; Jetties; Marinas; Mooring pens; Mortuaries; Public administration buildings; Residential accommodation; Sex services premises; Signage; Storage premises; Vehicle body repair workshops; Vehicle repair stations; Warehouse or distribution centres; Water recreation structures; Wholesale suppliesPermitted without consent
Environmental protection works; Extensive agriculture; Home occupationsPermitted with consent
Air transport facilities; Airstrips; Animal boarding or training establishments; Aquaculture; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Boat launching ramps; Boat sheds; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Camping grounds; Caravan parks; Cellar door premises; Cemeteries; Charter and tourism boating facilities; Centre-based child care facilities; Community facilities; Crematoria; Depots; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Eco-tourist facilities; Educational establishments; Environmental facilities; Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Farm stay accommodation; Flood mitigation works; Forestry; Funeral homes; Garden centres; Helipads; Home-based child care; Home businesses; Home industries; Industrial training facilities; Information and education facilities; Intensive livestock agriculture; Intensive plant agriculture; Jetties; Landscaping material supplies; Mooring pens; Moorings; Open cut mining; Places of public worship; Plant nurseries; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (outdoor); Respite day care centres; Roads; Roadside stalls; Rural industries; Rural supplies; Rural workers’ dwellings; Secondary dwellings; Timber yards; Transport depots; Truck depots; Veterinary hospitals; Water recreation structures; Wharf or boating facilitiesProhibited
Any development not specified in item 2 or 3RU1-Primary Production Allowable Development - Proposed
Permitted without consent
Environmental protection works; Extensive agriculture; Home-based child care; Home occupations; Intensive plant agriculture, Roadside stalls, Waterbody (artificial)
Permitted with consent
Agricultural produce industry; Air transport facility, Animal boarding and training establishments; Aquaculture, Cemetery; Community Facilities, Crematorium; Depot; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Electricity Generating Works; Emergency Services Facility, Environmental Facilities, Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Farm stay accommodation; Flood mitigation work; Forestry; Helipad; Highway service centre; Home business; Home industry; Intensive livestock agriculture, Plant nursery; Open cut mining; Recreation facility (outdoor); Roads; Rural industry; Rural workers’ dwellings; Service Station; Telecommunications facility; Truck depot; Turf farming; Veterinary Services; Waste or resource management facility; Water recreation structure
Prohibited
Residential accommodation; Any development not specified in item 2 or 3