New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

HUNTER'S HILL LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN NO 1 - REG 17A

17A Integrated housing development

(1) The council shall not grant consent to integrated housing development unless:

(a) the area of the allotment on which a building is to be added to, altered or erected so as to contain 2 dwellings is not less than 700 square metres, excluding the area of the access corridor of a hatchet shaped allotment, and

(b) the area of the allotment on which a second detached dwelling-house or 2 new detached dwelling-houses are to be erected is not less than 900 square metres, excluding the area of the access corridor of a hatchet shaped allotment, and

(c) the allotment (or each of the allotments) has a garden area (within the meaning of clause 16A) equal to or greater than 50% of the area of the allotment (or 60% in the case of an allotment having a frontage to the Lane Cove River or the Parramatta River), and

(d) where there is an existing dwelling-house on the allotment concerned, any second detached dwelling-house that will be erected does not exceed 3.6 metres in height, and

(e) where the development is to be carried out on a vacant allotment (whether or not after an existing dwelling-house is demolished) and two detached dwelling-houses are to be erected on that allotment, the dwelling-house furthest from the street does not exceed 3.6 metres in height.

(2) In any integrated housing development, off-street parking space shall be provided for each dwelling in accordance with the following standards:

(a) in the case of the division of a single dwelling-house into two dwellings-1 car parking space for each dwelling,

(b) in the case of the addition of a second dwelling-house having a gross floor area of less than 125m 2 -1 car parking space for each dwelling,

(c) in the case of the addition of a second dwelling-house having a gross floor area exceeding 125m 2 -1 car parking space for the existing dwelling-house and 2 car parking spaces for the additional dwelling-house,

(d) in the case of the erection of two new dwelling-houses-1 car parking space for each dwelling having a gross floor area of less than 125m 2 or 2 car parking spaces for each dwelling having a gross floor area exceeding 125m 2.

(3) The council shall not grant consent for a second dwelling unless it is satisfied that:

(a) adequate provision is made in respect of the privacy of the proposed dwelling and any adjacent dwelling-house, including the curtilage thereof, and

(b) adequate provision is made in respect of access to natural light for the proposed dwelling and any adjacent dwelling-house, including the curtilage thereof.

(4) The council shall not grant consent to integrated housing development unless it is satisfied that arrangements satisfactory to it have been made for provision of a water supply to each dwelling and for the disposal of sewage and stormwater from each dwelling.