Zoning pursuant to the Planning and Environment Furthermore, as part of the local planning Act 1987 has been applied to the Gunbower scheme review, a number of overlays have Forest Ramsar site as part of a review of local been applied to the site. Overlays operate in planning schemes, to control land use and addition to zone requirements and generally development. The Public Conservation and concern environmental, landscape, heritage, Resource Zone (PCRZ) has been applied to the built form and land and site management Gunbower Forest Ramsar site in the Gannawarra issues. The overlays applied to the Gunbower and Campaspe planning schemes. The PCRZ Forest Ramsar site in the Gannawarra Planning aims to: Scheme are: protect and conserve the natural environment ESO 1 Environmental Significance – and natural processes for their historic, Overlay Watercourse Environs; – scientific, landscape, habitat or cultural LSIO Land Subject to Inundation; and values; – HO22 Heritage Overlay. provide facilities which assist in public – education and interpretation of the natural The overlays applied in the Campaspe environment with minimal degradation of the Planning Scheme are: natural environment or natural processes; LSIO Land Subject to Inundation; and – FO Floodway Overlay; provide for appropriate resource-based uses. – SMO Salinity Management Overlay; and – Land adjacent to Gunbower Forest is generally HO Heritage Overlay. zoned Rural Zone with some zoned – Environmental Rural Zone.
Zoning pursuant to the Planning and Environment Act 1987 has been applied to the Gunbower Forest Ramsar site as part of a review of local planning schemes, to control land use and development. The Public Conservation and Resource Zone (PCRZ) has been applied to the Gunbower Forest Ramsar site in the Gannawarra and Campaspe planning schemes. The PCRZ aims to: protect and conserve the natural environment and natural processes for their historic, scientific, landscape, habitat or cultural values; provide facilities which assist in public education and interpretation of the natural environment with minimal degradation of the natural environment or natural processes; and provide for appropriate resource-based uses. Land adjacent to Gunbower Forest is generally zoned Rural Zone with some zoned Environmental Rural Zone. Furthermore, as part of the local planning scheme review, a number of overlays have been applied to the site. Overlays operate in addition to zone requirements and generally concern environmental, landscape, heritage, built form and land and site management issues. The overlays applied to the Gunbower Forest Ramsar site in the Gannawarra Planning Scheme are: ESO 1 – Environmental Significance Overlay – Watercourse Environs; LSIO – Land Subject to Inundation; and HO22 – Heritage Overlay. The overlays applied in the Campaspe Planning Scheme are: LSIO – Land Subject to Inundation; FO – Floodway Overlay; SMO – Salinity Management Overlay; and HO – Heritage Overlay.
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