New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BLUE MOUNTAINS LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2005 - REG 58

58 Modification of land form

(1) Development is to minimise "cut" and "fill" as far as practicable and is to contain "cut" and "fill" within the development footprint where conditions allow.

(2) Consent shall not be granted to development in the Living--Bushland Conservation zone--

(a) that requires the alteration of the natural ground level by greater than 1 metre cut or 1 metre depth of fill, except where wholly contained within or retained by the walls of a building, or

(b) where the natural ground level of the area of proposed development has contiguous areas of slope greater than 10 per cent, that uses slab on ground, other than site responsive split-level slab, construction methods.