SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 40·6.26
Justification for Enabling Development
Enabling development can be justified when the public benefit to conservation and sustainable future use of the significant place outweighs the policy contradiction, where the principal proposal would otherwise have little prospect of being carried out.
The justification for allowing the enabling development lies in the over-riding public benefit to the conservation of the significant place and its sustainable future use which would be derived from the implementation of the principal proposal which otherwise would have little prospect of being carried out.
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