Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Low Rise Medium Density Housing) Amendment Regulation 2018 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Low Rise Medium Density

Housing) Amendment Regulation 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note

The objects of this Regulation are:

(a) to require a consent authority to take into account the Medium Density Design Guide for

Development Applications when assessing development for the purposes of a manor house or multi dwelling housing (terraces), but only if the consent authority is satisfied that there is no relevant development control plan, and

(b) to include definitions of manor house and multi dwelling housing (terraces).

This Regulation is made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, including sections 4.15 (1) (a) (iv) and 10.13 (the general regulation-making power).

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Low Rise Medium Density Housing) Amendment

Regulation 2018 [NSW]

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Low Rise

Medium Density Housing) Amendment Regulation 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Low
Rise Medium Density Housing) Amendment Regulation 2018.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

3 Amendment of Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Low Rise Medium Density Housing) Regulation 2017

Schedule 1 Amendment of Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation

2000

Insert before Schedule 1 [1]:

[1A]	Clause 3 Definitions
Insert in alphabetical order in clause 3 (1):

manor house has the same meaning as in State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008.

multi dwelling housing (terraces) has the same meaning as in
State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying

Development Codes) 2008.

[1B]	Clause 92 Additional matters that consent authority must consider
Insert after clause 92 (1) (d):

(e) in the case of a development application for development for the purposes of a manor house or multi dwelling

housing (terraces), the Medium Density Design Guide for

Development Applications published by the Department of
Planning and Environment on 6 July 2018, but only if the
consent authority is satisfied that there is not a

development control plan that adequately addresses such
development.

Note. A copy of the Guide is available on the website of the

Department.