A few months ago, I sat in on a public meeting to discuss subdivision options for certain blocks in Bungendore. One resident was quite surprised to discover that they couldn’t simply put up a fence across their yard and sell the part they weren’t living on.<\/p>\n
In fact, quite apart from the need for development approval from council, a developer (that’s effectively what you are if you’re undertaking any type of property development, even if you’re just dividing your block in two) must also provide access to certain utilities and make financial contributions to various funds established by council to offset the cost of public infrastructure that will be impacted by any potential increase in use resulting from the new development.<\/p>\n
These charges are levied under Section 64<\/a> of the Local Government Act<\/a> and Sections 94<\/a> and 94A<\/a> of the EP&A Act<\/a>. As a result, they are generally referred to as s.64 and s.94 contributions.<\/p>\n Section 64 contributions relate to the provision of water and sewerage services. These are simply contributions to offset the cost of providing water and sewerage infrastructure and are listed in council’s annual schedule of fees and charges<\/a>. These are one-off charges when a new lot is established, and are quite independent of annual water and sewerage access and usage charges. These charges are, however, only levied in areas where reticulated water and\/or sewerage services are provided.<\/p>\n For the 2012\/2013 financial year, s.64 charges for water and sewerage are $8,702 and $10,443 per lot respectively.<\/p>\n Section 94 contributions are more general in nature, and are required to fund s.94 Plans that have been established to provide specific services in a given area. Examples of current s.94 plans include the following:<\/p>\n Yarrowlumla Council section 94 Contribution Plan (No. 2)<\/a> Applies to new developments in all areas of the former Yarrowlumla Shire to offset the cost of construction of access roads<\/p>\n Yarrowlumla Section 94 Plan No.3<\/a> Applies to new developments in various areas of the former Yarrowlumla Shire to offset the cost of community facilities such as halls and playing fields<\/p>\n Tallaganda Section 94 Plan No.4<\/a> Applies to new developments in areas of the former Tallaganda Shire to offset the cost of bush fire fighting assets<\/p>\n Cooma-Monaro Section 94 Contributions Plan<\/a> Applies to all land in the former Cooma-Monaro Shire Council area<\/p>\n Palerang Section 94 Plan No.7<\/a> Applies to new developments in Bungendore and the surrounding rural area<\/p>\n Palerang Section 94 Plan No.10<\/a> Applies to land in Bungendore between King Street and Trucking Yard Lane<\/p>\n Section 94 contributions are levied on any new development, in the area specified in a s.94 Plan, that would be deemed to increase the demand on the services covered by the s.94 Plan in question. Details of all current Section 94 Plans are available from the Palerang Council website under Section 94 and 64 Contributions Plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Section 94 contributions vary with the works covered under the relevant plan. Contributions for residential developments, however, are currently capped under state government legislation at a total cost of $20,000 per lot (i.e. the total s.94 contributions for a residential development on an individual lot will not exceed $20,000).<\/p>\n Council may also set conditions on individual developments that involve costs over and above the aforementioned contributions. Such conditions may include, for example, the sealing of an access lane way, the construction of an access road, or the installation of a culvert on a driveway or access road.<\/p>\n The bottom line is that it’s important to consider all of the applicable costs before undertaking any property development. There can be more to it than meets the untrained eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few months ago, I sat in on a public meeting to discuss subdivision options for certain blocks in Bungendore. One resident was quite surprised to discover that they couldn’t simply put up a fence across their yard and sell the part they weren’t living on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peteharrison.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Section 64 Contributions<\/h4>\n
Section 94 Contributions<\/h4>\n
Provision of Access Roads<\/p>\n
Provision of Community Facilities<\/p>\n
Bush Fire Control and Suppression<\/p>\n
Roads & Open Space<\/p>\n
Recreation Facilities at Bungendore<\/p>\n
Provision of Kings Highway Culverts at South Bungendore<\/p>\n