Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174:front:0:p19
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025C00174
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Character Range: 51213–54072

Hills, Ridges and Buffer Spaces, River Corridors, and Mountains and Bushland categories follow.
Policies for Lake Burley Griffin and Foreshores are included within the Lake Burley Griffin and Foreshores Precinct Code (refer Part Four of the Plan) as this area forms part of the Designated Areas.

3.2.2 Principle for the National Capital Open Space System
The NCOSS is required to protect the nationally significant open‑space framework, visual backdrop and landscape setting for the National Capital. NCOSS will blend city and country in a way that symbolises the character of the National Capital and provides a balanced range of uses which reinforces the natural, cultural, scenic and recreational values of the ACT.

3.2.3 Policies for the National Capital Open Space System
 1.        The NCOSS will be planned as an integrated system so as to protect its environmental qualities, to promote a continuum of natural and park‑like settings for the National Capital, and to frame and enhance existing and future urban areas.
 2.       The natural and cultural resources of the NCOSS must be protected in order to provide educational, cultural and recreational opportunities.
 3.        Public utilities and roads will be located in the NCOSS only where technical, environmental and visual assessments clearly demonstrate that the impacts on an area's conservation and landscape values can be reduced to an acceptable level.
 4.       Within Designated Areas of the Plan, all Operational Plans must be prepared in close consultation with the National Capital Authority. Operational Plans may identify future works to be undertaken in parts of the NCOSS within Designated Areas and may serve for the purpose of granting works approval. The National Capital Authority may grant works approval covering a period of 12 months for works identified in an Operational Plan as being low risk and low impact.

3.2.4 Hills, Ridges and Buffer Spaces

3.2.4.1 Background
The hill areas do not attract the same intensity of use as the lakes and rivers of the NCOSS but they play a greater role in satisfying the landscape function of NCOSS. It is therefore critical that the hill areas be preserved from urban development and their essential landscape/environmental character retained and reinforced to provide the unified background and landscape setting for the National Capital.
It is not intended that the hills and ridges serve only as public open space. They are intended for multiple‑use appropriate to the location and character of each hill area. They will be used as vantage points from which people can view the city and to provide a quiet refuge from urban living. They will also serve as wildlife and access corridors linking urban areas with other parts of the Territory's open space system. Their continued use for recreation, tourism and appropriate urban