New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

BARRABA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1990 - REG 19

19 Rural workers’ dwellings

(1) A person may, with the consent of the Council, erect additional dwellings on land which is within Zone No 1 (a) and is not vacant if:

(a) the additional dwellings are required for the accommodation of workers engaged in agricultural or pastoral work on the land the subject of the development application,

(b) the additional dwellings are clustered in a location where they will not impair the suitability of the land for agriculture,

(c) any other rural workers’ dwellings on the land are being used by persons substantially engaged in agricultural employment on that land, and

(d) the rural workers are employed by the owner of the land.

(2) The Council shall not consent to an application pursuant to this clause unless it is satisfied that the needs of existing agriculture genuinely require that rural workers reside on the land.