Heritage Development Control Plan
The Heritage Development Control Plan aims to:
- Conserve the heritage significance of the natural and built environment;
- Ensure that alterations, additions and infill development are sympathetic to the identified heritage values of the Shire; and
- Control the demolition of heritage items.
The Heritage DCP supplements the HSLEP 1994 by providing controls to manage the heritage of Hornsby Shire. The purpose of the DCP is to provide guidance and outline specific controls for development relating to heritage items and within Heritage Conservation Areas. Controls include guidelines to conserve the heritage significance of the natural and built environment and ensure new development is sympathetic with the identified heritage values. The controls address design, streetscapes, siting, fences, gates and landscaping. Heritage controls do not prevent development, rather, they ensure that change takes place in a way that does not detract from the values that make heritage items special.
Printed copies of the Heritage DCP can be obtained, free of charge, from Council's Planning Division, or can be downloaded here - Heritage DCP - 2MB.