SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 43·6.35
Regional Strategic Objectives for Coastal Development
The objectives are to conserve the natural character and landscape of the undeveloped coast and protect it from excessive, inappropriate or obtrusive development, and to facilitate appropriate development in coastal settlements that contributes to sustainable economy while being sensitive to coastal location.
The regional strategic objectives for coastal development are to: conserve the natural character and landscape of the undeveloped coast and to protect it from excessive, inappropriate or obtrusive development; and facilitate appropriate development in coastal settlements and other parts of the developed coastline (subject to all other relevant planning policies) that contributes to a sustainable economy and which is sensitive to its coastal location.
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