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Title: Heritage listing explained
About: Definition of heritage listing, legal ramifications of listing, how to find if a place is listed, community registers of listings and effects of listing.
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Title: Introduction to environmental law factsheet
About: Covers national parks and wildlife, and wildlife protection, biodiversity, pollution, heritage law and NSW and Commonwealth planning laws.
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Books in public libraries

Title: Environment Chapter 25: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Covers planning controls such as environmental planning instruments, including regional environmental plans (REPs), local environmental plans (LEPs), development consent, threatened species legislation, building approvals, heritage protection, national parks and wildlife, pollution, offences.
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Rural landholder's guide to environmental law in NSW, 2nd edition
About: Legal rights and obligations of landholders, land conservation, protected animals and species, pollution, agricultural chemicals, crops, livestock, mining, fire and water management, and heritage protection.
Where: Check your public library.
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Lawyers' Tools

Title: Local government planning and environment NSW
About: Contains annotated copies of the Local Government Act 1993 and Regulations, the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, and related legislation. Also contains chapters on pollution, environmental planning, heritage, biodiversity and conservation, the Land and Environment Court, planning development and building control and approvals, liability and responsibilities, financing and accountability of councils. Location number Ref/N342.94409/6 and online. (Onsite clients only).
Volume A
Volume B
Volume C
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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