Membership Form 2022

For your convenience a copy of the Application Form is reproduced below:

BERRIMA RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INC.

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Please return to: Mary Moore c/- Post Office, Berrima NSW 2577

I/We, ………………………………………………………………………………….. [full name of applicant/s]

of ………………………………………………………………………………………… [residential address]

………………………………………………………………………………………………[occupation]

…………………………………………………………..[email address]………………………………..[tel]

hereby apply to become a Member/Associate Member 1 (strike out as appropriate) of the above named Incorporated Association. In the event of my admission as a member, I agree to be bound by the constitution of the Association for the time being in force.

……………………………………………………..[Signature of applicant/s] / / Date PROPOSER

I, …………………………………………….. [full name]a member of the Association, nominate the applicant for membership of the Association.

………………………………………………. [Signature of proposer] / / Date SECONDER

I, …………………………………………….. [full name]
a member of the Association, second the nomination of the applicant for membership of the Association.

……………………………………………….. Signature of seconder / / Date
I agree to work towards the objects of the Association and accept the Rules of the

Association.

The objects of the Association are:

• To improve community awareness,- through more communication between residents, and- through liaison with bodies which affect the development of Berrima
• To ensure that developments do not degrade the character of Berrima as ahistoric village. (See over page for elaboration). •Whenever possible, I shall endeavour to attend meetings of the Association and give practical support to the objects of the Association. Fees are payable within 28 days of approval of membership by the Committee].Single Membership [ ] $10 per annum. Family Membership [ ] $15 per annum.1. Residents of Berrima are eligible to join as ordinary Members; former Members who move away from Berrima are eligible to join as Associate Members.

Objects of the Berrima Residents Association Inc

In practice, the objects of the Association are achieved by actively supporting the objectives of the Berrima Development Control Plan (which governs the Village) and the Rural Lands Development Control Plan and the Rural Living Development Control Plan (which govern the Berrima Landscape Conservation Area). These DCPs address threats to the heritage character of Berrima and ensure that any further development has minimal impact on the Georgian townscape and its rural/bushland surrounds.

The combined objectives of these Development Control Plans are:

To preserve the character of Berrima Village as being a largely intact nineteenth century village, predominantly Georgian in character, with modest scale buildings in a mature landscape setting. To maintain and enhance the existing visual, built and landscape character of the Village and its landscape conservation area.

To protect and conserve buildings, structures or places of environmental heritage and/or visual importance.
To provide specific controls for all forms of development on all land both private and public within the Berrima Conservation Area and the Berrima Landscape Conservation Area.

To retain the identity and containment of the village core area to the north of the Wingecarribee River within the Berrima Conservation Area and to limit the settlement as a whole within the Berrima Landscape Conservation Area.

Retain the rural ambience arising from the natural landscape surrounding the village with minimal number of buildings visible from the main approaches to Berrima.
Retain the open setting along the main approaches to and exits from Berrima, being the Old Hume Highway (great South Road), Oldbury Street, Berrima Road (to the southern boundary of the Berrima Cemetery), and Medway Road (between the Old Hume Highway and the freeway).

To encourage increased community awareness of Berrima’s intrinsic heritage, visual and environmental qualities and the need for conservation measures.
To recognise tourism as an important factor in the economy of Berrima and to actively promote the environmental heritage and natural attributes of Berrima as a means of ensuring the continued contribution of the local economy. In doing this, however, Council must ensure that the heritage integrity of the village is not undermined through tourism promotion and development.

To retain the rural setting of Berrima by regulating the removal of trees within the entire Berrima Conservation Area and Berrima Landscape Conservation Area.
To ensure that there is no light spill from any new development which would impact on surrounding residents, including diminishment of the night sky experience.

To encourage the use of the roads and the “paper” roads within the Berrima Landscape Conservation Area as habitat corridors.
To minimise the population pressures on the village by retaining the undeveloped nature of its rural surrounds and strictly enforcing its protective zoning.