Environment

Leichhardt Council is committed to building a sustainable future for the people of Leichhardt and their local environment.

Through strategic planning and planning controls, infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with environmental legislation and delivering environmental education, Council aims to reduce the impacts we as a community have on our local environment.

Council's objectives for Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) were developed in 1994 to guide policies and practice.

They are:

To minimise waste and pollution
To utilise and reuse waste products as resources
To protect, restore, and recreate natural ecosystems and maintain biodiversity
To maintain stable climatic conditions for a healthy human population and planet
To reduce overall consumption of natural resources while maintaining our quality of life
To use renewable resources at a sustainable rate which allows the resource to be replenished for continual use and future generations
To utilise non-renewable resources wisely and allocate their use to the most effective and vital uses for the benefit of all society