Rural Zones
RU1 Primary Production
- Objectives of zone
- 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.
- Permitted without consent
Home businesses; Home occupations
Permitted with consent
Agriculture; Airstrips; Backpackers’ accommodation; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Caravan parks; Cellar door premises; Cemeteries; Community facilities; Crematoria; Depots; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Farm stay accommodation; Flood mitigation works; Garden centres; Helipads; Home-based child care; Home industries; Industrial training facilities; Information and education facilities; Intensive livestock agriculture; Intensive plant agriculture; Open cut mining; Neighbourhood shops; Places of public worship; Plant nurseries; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (outdoor); Research stations; Roads; Roadside stalls; Rural industries; Rural worker’s dwellings; Secondary dwellings; Sewerage systems; Truck depots; Veterinary hospitals; Water supply systems
Prohibited
Any development not specified in item 2 or 3
RU2 Rural Landscape
- Objectives of zone
- To encourage sustainable primary industry production by maintaining and enhancing the natural resource base.
- To maintain the rural landscape character of the land.
- To provide for a range of compatible land uses, including extensive agriculture.
To minimise conflict between land uses within the zone and land uses within adjoining zones.
To ensure that the development and management of the land has a neutral or beneficial impact on environmental assets including waterways, riparian land, wetlands and other surface and groundwater resources, soil fertility, remnant native vegetation, and fauna movement corridors.
Permitted without consent
Home businesses; Home occupations
Permitted with consent
Agriculture; Airstrips; Backpackers’ accommodation; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Caravan parks; Cellar door premises; Cemeteries; Community facilities; Crematoria; Depots; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Eco-tourist facilities; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Extractive industries; Farm buildings; Farm stay accommodation; Flood mitigation works; Forestry; Function centres; Garden centres; Helipads; Home-based child care; Home industries; Hotel or motel accommodation; Industrial training facilities; Information and education facilities; Mining; Neighbourhood shops; Places of public worship; Plant nurseries; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (outdoor); Research stations; Roads; Roadside stalls; Rural industries; Rural supplies; Rural worker’s dwellings; Secondary dwellings; Service stations; Sewerage systems; Truck depots; Veterinary hospitals; Water supply systems
Prohibited
Any development not specified in item 2 or 3
Zone RU3 Forestry
- Objectives of zone
- To enable development for forestry purposes.
- To enable other development that is compatible with forestry land uses.
- Permitted without consent
- Uses authorised under the Forestry Act 1916
- Permitted with consent
- Prohibited
- Any development not specified in item 2
Zone RU5 Village
- Objectives of zone
- To provide for a range of land uses, services and facilities that are associated with a rural village.
To encourage design and development which enhance the streetscape and village character.
To integrate new and innovative development with the established settlement pattern, landscape and character within the village by encouraging:
- pedestrian, cycle and vehicular connections and accessibility
- the retention and enhancement of existing streetscape, and significant vegetation
- consistency with the scale, density and form of existing development.
Ensure that non-residential uses do not result in adverse impacts to the amenity of existing and future residential premises
Permitted without consent
Home businesses; Home occupations
Permitted with consent
Amusement centres; Attached dwellings; Car parks; Caravan parks; Cemeteries; Child care centres; Commercial premises; Community facilities; Crematoria; Depots; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Electricity generating works; Entertainment facilities; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Flood mitigation works; Freight transport facilities; Function centres; Group homes; Home-based child care; Home industries; Industrial training facilities; Information and education facilities; Light industries; Medical centres; Neighbourhood shops; Passenger transport facilities; Places of public worship; Public administration buildings; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (indoor); Recreation facilities (outdoor); Registered clubs; Research stations; Respite day care centres; Roads; Rural supplies; Schools; Secondary dwellings; Self storage units; Semi-detached dwellings; Service stations; Sewerage systems; Shop top housing; Signage; Tourist and visitor accommodation; Truck depots; Vehicle body repair workshops; Vehicle repair stations; Vehicle sales or hire premises; Veterinary hospitals; Waste or resource management facilities; Water supply systems; Wholesale supplies
Prohibited
Biosolids treatment facilities; Serviced apartments; Waste disposal facilities; Any other development not specified in item 2 or 3
03-03-2022
