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Areas
       * sets out Special Requirements for the development of areas (not being in a Designated Area) that are desirable in the interests of the National Capital.

Objectives of the National Capital Plan
Building on the object of the Plan and the matters of national significance are the key objectives of the Plan – goals for the city and what the planning and development of Canberra and the Territory should achieve.
Key objectives of the Plan are to:

     1.        Recognise the pre‑eminence of the role of Canberra and the Territory as Australia's National Capital.

     2.        Further develop and enhance a Central National Area which includes the National Triangle and its setting, Lake Burley Griffin and its foreshores and the diplomatic sites and national institutions, as the heart of the National Capital.

     3.        Emphasise the national significance of the main approach routes and avenues.

     4.        Respect the geometry and intent of the Griffins' formally adopted plan for Canberra.

     5.        Maintain and enhance the landscape character of Canberra and the Territory as the setting for the National Capital.

     6.        Protect the undeveloped hill tops and the open spaces which divide and give form to Canberra's urban areas.

     7.        Provide a plan offering flexibility and choice to enable the Territory Government properly to fulfil its functions.

     8.        Support and promote environmentally responsible urban development practices.

Works approval
Works (as defined by the Act) within Designated Areas require approval from the National Capital Authority. The National Capital Authority uses the Plan to assess applications for works approval.

Relationship with the Territory Plan
The Act describes the specific nature of the relationship between the Plan and the Territory Plan:
    'The Territory Plan has no effect to the extent that it is inconsistent with the National Capital Plan, but the Territory Plan shall be taken to be consistent with the National Capital Plan to the extent that it is capable of operating concurrently with the National Capital Plan.'
The Act requires the ACT Legislative Assembly to make laws to establish a Territory planning authority and confer functions on that authority to prepare and administer a plan in a manner not inconsistent with the Plan.
The object of the Territory Plan is 'to ensure, in a manner not inconsistent with the National Capital Plan, the planning and development of the Territory to provide the people of the Territory with an attractive, safe and efficient environment in which to live and work and have their recreation'.
The Act requires the Territory Plan to define the planning principles and policies for giving effect to the object of the plan and provides that it may include the detailed conditions of planning, design and development of land and the priorities in