New South Wales Consolidated Regulations New South Wales Consolidated Regulations(1) Zone objectives The objectives for development in this zone are:(a) to allow for diversity and choice of housing types and locations, appropriate to the zone and other essential needs of all households, and(b) to encourage the development of predominantly residential areas, and(c) to provide an environment where people can live and work in home businesses and professional services while maintaining the residential amenity of the surrounding area, and(d) to enable retail development that is compatible with the predominantly residential characteristics of this zone and which serve the local neighbourhood, and(e) to enable development of land in this zone that is appropriate to the surrounding residential area where the scale, height, type, operation and traffic-generating characteristics of the development are compatible with the character and amenity of the surrounding residential area and with existing or proposed development nearby.
(2) Without development consent Dams; home occupations; home occupations (sex services); maintenance dredging; public utility undertakings
(3) Only with development consent Development not included in subclause (2) or (4)
(4) Prohibited Abattoirs; airports; animal boarding, breeding or training establishments; aquaculture; bulky goods premises; bulk stores; car parking stations; commercial premises; depots; entertainment facilities; extractive industries; general advertising; generating works; hazardous industries; hazardous storage establishments; helipads; heliports; highway service centres; hotels; industries (other than home industries); institutions; intensive livestock agriculture; intensive plant agriculture; light industries (other than home industries); liquid fuel depots; materials recycling facilities; mines; offensive industries; offensive storage establishments; passenger transport terminals; places of public entertainment; professional consulting offices (other than livestock breed society headquarters); recreation vehicle areas; restaurants; restricted premises; road transport terminals; sawmills; service stations; sex services premises; shops (other than neighbourhood shops); stock and saleyards; take away food outlets; tourist facilities; transport depots; vehicle body repair workshops; vehicle repair stations; vehicle showrooms; warehouse or distribution centres; waste depots; waste disposal facilities
(5) Area for hatchet shaped lots A reference in subclauses (6), (7) and (8) to the area of a lot does not include the area of an access corridor for a hatchet shaped lot.
(6) Subdivision(a) Land in this zone may be subdivided, but only with consent.(b) Consent may be granted to subdivide land in this zone if each lot to be created by the subdivision will have an area of at least 400 square metres.(c) Consent may be granted to subdivide land in this zone for the purposes of integrated housing if the total number of lots to be created by the subdivision is at least 5 and each lot will have an area of at least 232 square metres.
(7) Dwelling houses(a) Consent must not be granted for a dwelling house to be erected on a lot in this zone unless the area of the lot is 400 square metres or more.(b) Consent must not be granted to carry out integrated housing development on a lot in this zone unless each proposed lot will have an area of 230 square metres or more.
(8) Detached dual occupancy Consent may be granted for a detached dual occupancy on a lot in this zone only if the lot will have an area of at least 600 square metres.
(9) Neighbourhood shops Consent must not be granted to erect or use a building for the purposes of a neighbourhood shop on a lot in this zone if:(a) the lot is less than 400 metres from another neighbourhood shop, a shop or a business zone, or(b) the retail floor area of a building on the lot is greater than 150 square metres.
(10) Additional uses Despite any other provision of this Plan, consent may be granted for land identified in Column 1 of the following table, to be used for the development specified in Column 2, subject to any conditions detailed in Column 3:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Land Development Conditions 80 Brown Street, Armidale being Lot A, DP 696046. Development for the purpose of an agriculture commodity trading business. Land in the area bounded by Jessie Street, Barney Street, Butler Street and Rusden Street, Armidale. Development for the purpose of a professional consulting office. Glen Innes Road (New England Highway), Armidale, being Lots 1 and 2, DP 826910. Development for the purpose of a professional consulting office. Corner Grafton Road and Canambe Street, Armidale, being Lots 204 and 205, DP 755808. Development for the purpose of bulky goods premises (including a single major tenancy and additional smaller tenancies). The gross floor area of the single major bulky goods premises tenancy must not be less than 2,000 square metres.
The gross floor area of any additional smaller bulky goods premises tenancy must not be less than 500 square metres.2-4 Stephen Street (corner with Mann), Armidale, being Lot 3, DP 520645. Development for the purpose of storage units used for the storage of goods, merchandise or materials.