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Development in local government areas is controlled by a hierarchy of legislation and policies.
The primary pieces of legislation governing development within NSW are State Government Acts such as the Local Government Act 1993, which, amongst other things, defines the role of Local Government in the planning and development process, and the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, which provides the foundation for subordinate development controls. (more…)
Both the current LEPs (planning in Palerang is presently governed by no fewer than six (!) LEPs) and the new ‘unified’ Palerang LEP (currently only in draft form) contain both quantitative and qualitative requirements for new developments. The quantitative requirements are pretty straightforward: lot size, building height, slope of land etc. These are the bits developers tend to focus on when making applications, and determination of compliance is a simple matter of comparing numbers. (more…)