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Residential Zones

R1 General Residential

  1. Objectives of zone

    • To provide for the housing needs of the community.
    • To provide for a variety of housing types and densities.
    • To enable other land uses that provide facilities or services to meet the day to day needs of residents.
    • To ensure that development does not have an unacceptable impact on adjoining land, by way of shadowing, loss of amenity, noise and the like.
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  2. Permitted without consent

    • Home businesses; Home occupations

  3. Permitted with consent

    • Attached dwellings; Backpackers’ accommodation; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Boarding houses; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Child care centres; Community facilities; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Exhibition homes; Exhibition villages; Flood mitigation works; Group homes; Health consulting rooms; Home-based child care; Home industries; Hostels; Multi dwelling housing; Neighbourhood shops; Places of public worship; Residential flat buildings; Respite day care centres; Roads; Secondary dwellings; Semi-detached dwellings; Seniors housing; Shop top housing; Water supply systems.

  4. Prohibited

    • Water treatment facilities; Any other development not specified in item 2 or 3

R2 Low Density Residential

  1. Objectives of zone

    • To provide for the housing needs of the community within a low density residential environment.
    • To enable other land uses that provide facilities or services to meet the day to day needs of residents.
    • To ensure that development does not have an unacceptable impact on adjoining land, by way of shadowing, loss of amenity, noise and the like.
    • To integrate new development with the established settlement pattern and landscape within the neighbourhood by encouraging:
      1. pedestrian, cycle and vehicular connections and accessibility
      2. the retention and enhancement of existing streetscape and other significant vegetation
      3. consistency with the scale, density and form of existing development.
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  2. Permitted without consent

    • Home businesses; Home occupations

  3. Permitted with consent

    • Attached dwellings; Backpackers’ accommodation; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Boarding houses; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Child care centres; Community facilities; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Electricity generating works; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Exhibition homes; Exhibition villages; Flood mitigation works; Group homes; Health consulting rooms; Home-based child care; Home industries; Multi dwelling housing; Neighbourhood shops; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (indoor); Recreation facilities (outdoor); Roads; Secondary dwellings; Semi-detached dwellings; Seniors housing; Sewage treatment plant; Shop top housing; Water supply systems.

  4. Prohibited

    • Water treatment facilities; Any other development not specified in item 2 or 3

R5 Large Lot Residential

  1. Objectives of zone

    • To provide residential housing in a rural setting while preserving, and minimising impacts on, environmentally sensitive locations and scenic quality.
    • To ensure that large residential lots do not hinder the proper and orderly development of urban areas in the future.
    • To ensure that development in the area does not unreasonably increase the demand for public services or public facilities.
    • To minimise conflict between land uses within this zone and land uses within adjoining zones.
    • To ensure that the development and management of the land has a neutral or beneficial impact on environmental assets including waterways, riparian land, wetlands and other surface and groundwater resources, soil fertility, remnant native vegetation, and fauna movement corridors.
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  2. Permitted without consent

    • Extensive agriculture; Home businesses; Home occupations

  3. Permitted with consent

    • Backpackers’ accommodation; Bed and breakfast accommodation; Building identification signs; Business identification signs; Cellar door premises; Child care centres; Community facilities; Drainage; Dual occupancies; Dwelling houses; Earthworks; Electricity generating works; Environmental facilities; Environmental protection works; Farm buildings; Flood mitigation works; Group homes; Health consulting rooms; Home-based child care; Home businesses; Home industries; Horticulture; Neighbourhood shops; Recreation areas; Recreation facilities (indoor); Recreation facilities (outdoor); Roads; Roadside stalls; Secondary dwellings; Sewage treatment plant; Viticulture; Water recycling facilities; Water supply systems.

  4. Prohibited

    • Any development not specified in item 2 or 3.
03-03-2022