New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

SUTHERLAND SHIRE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2006 - REG 24

24 Environmental risk--nuclear research reactor at Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre

(1) This clause applies to land shown on the map marked " Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2006 (Amendment No 4)--Clause 24--Environmental Risk--Nuclear research reactor at Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre " as being within a 1.6 kilometre radius of the nuclear research reactor at Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre.

(2) The consent authority must not consent to development on land to which this clause applies unless it has considered the following matters that are of relevance to the development--

(a) any risk of radiation to life or property on the site of the proposed development,

(b) the extent to which residential densities on the site and on the land as a whole should be limited to minimise the risk to life or property,

(c) whether adequate measures will be in place to enable the safe evacuation of people from the land, and enable access to that land by emergency services, during an emergency,

(d) the intensity of the existing and proposed use of the land,

(e) the need to restrict vulnerable development on the land,

(f) any recommendations of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency or Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation relating to development on the land.