150 submissions on its draft LEP.

The deadline for submissions

closed on April 9 but manager of

strategic planning Mark Pepping said

there had been a flood of submissions

in the last few days before and after

the deadline.

Mr Pepping said he had originally

hoped to have a report ready for a

council meeting by late May,

highlighting the key issues raised by

the submissions, but conceded with

so many submissions entered the

department would not have a report

ready until June.

Issues in the submissions ranged

from lot sizes in Robertson to

concerns over hedge heights. Mr

Pepping said not everyone would be

pleased with the draft LEP at the end

of the day, but that was to be expected

with such a complex document.

A lot of the draft LEP was based on

a State Government template and

some of it was non-negotiable, but

Council could re-word some of the

technical jargon of the Development

Control Plans so that residents could

better understand it, according to Mr

Pepping.

Such items as land use tables and

Department of Planning subset

clauses made the draft LEP very

technical and even confusing, Mr

Pepping admitted.

The LEP had been on display since

March and the DCPs for Burrawang

and Wingello go on public display

later this month.