New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MAITLAND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1993 - REG 5

5 How are terms defined in this plan?

(1) The following definitions are used in this plan:
"Abattoir" means a building or place used for the slaughter of animals, whether or not animal by-products are processed, manufactured or distributed, and includes a knackery.
"Aerodrome" has the meaning ascribed to it in the Air Navigation Regulations made pursuant to the Air Navigation Act 1920 of the Commonwealth.
"Advertising" means the use of a building or place for the display of symbols, messages or other devices for promotional purposes, whether or not the display involves the erection of a structure or the carrying out of a work.
"Agriculture", except in the expression intensive agriculture, means:

(a) the cultivation of crops, including cereals, fruit, vegetable or flower crops, or

(b) the keeping or breeding of livestock, bees or poultry and other birds, or

(c) the cultivation of plants in a wholesale plant nursery,

for commercial purposes.
"Animal establishment" means a building or place used for the breeding, boarding, training or keeping, of or caring for, animals for commercial purposes, and includes a riding school.
"Appointed day" means the day on which this plan takes effect.
"Aquaculture" means the cultivation of the resources of the sea or inland waters for the propagation or rearing of marine, estuarine or freshwater fish or plants or other organisms.
"Bed and breakfast accommodation" means a dwelling which:

(a) provides temporary overnight accommodation for the short-term traveller,

(b) offers at least breakfast for guests,

(c) does not accommodate more than 4 guests,

(d) does not contain facilities in rooms for the preparation of meals by guests, and

(e) is not used in whole or in part for the permanent or long-term accommodation of any person other than the person or persons who operate and manage the accommodation facility and who normally reside in the dwelling.

"Boarding house" means a building or place which is not licensed to sell liquor, where accommodation, together with meals and laundry facilities, is provided, but only to residents.
"Brothel" means premises habitually used for the purpose of prostitution, or that have been used for that purpose and are likely to be used again for that purpose and includes premises used by only one prostitute for the purpose of prostitution.
"Bulky goods sales room or showroom" means a building or place used for the sale by retail or auction, the hire or the display of items (whether goods or materials) which are of such a size, shape or weight as to require:

(a) a large area for handling, storage or display, or

(b) direct vehicular access to the site of the building or place by members of the public, for the purpose of loading items into their vehicles after purchase,

and which may also be used for the sale of motor powered or motor drawn vehicles and agricultural or industrial plant or machinery but is not used for any sale of foodstuffs or clothing.
"Bushfire hazard reduction" means the reduction or modification (by burning, mechanical or manual means) of material that constitutes a bushfire hazard.
"Business premises" means a building or place at or on which:

(a) an occupation, profession or trade (other than an industry) is carried on for the provision of services directly to members of the public on a regular basis, or

(b) a service is provided directly to members of the public on a regular basis,

and may include, without limitation, premises such as banks, post offices, hairdressers, dry cleaners, travel agencies, internet access facilities, medical centres, betting agencies and the like, but does not include sex services premises.
"Camp or caravan site" means a site used for the purpose of:

(a) placing movable dwellings within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 for permanent accommodation, or for the temporary accommodation of tourists, or

(b) the erection, assembly or placement of cabins for the temporary accommodation of tourists.

"Car park" means a building or place used for parking vehicles, and any manoeuvring space and access thereto, whether operated for gain or not.
"Child care centre" means a building or place used for the purpose of supervising or caring for six or more children under the age of six years and includes facilities known as a long day care centre, preschool, occasional care centre, children’s neighbourhood centre, or multipurpose child care centre, but does not include a home based child care establishment.
"City" means City of Maitland.
"Classified road" means a road or work declared under Section 4 of the State Roads Act 1986 to be:

(a) a main road,

(b) a secondary road,

(c) a State Highway,

(d) a tourist road,

(e) a State work,

(f) a freeway, or

(g) a controlled access road.

"Club" means a building used by persons associated or by a body incorporated, for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic or other lawful purposes whether of the same or of a different kind and whether or not the whole or a part of such building is the premises of a club registered under the Registered Clubs Act 1976 .
"Communications facility" means a building, structure, work, or place used primarily for the purpose of transmitting or receiving signals for the purposes of communication, and includes radio masts and towers and satellite disks, and the like.
"Community centre" means a building or place owned, leased or subleased by the Council and used to provide facilities comprising or relating to any one or more of the following:

(a) a public library,

(b) public health services,

(c) rest rooms,

(d) meeting rooms,

(e) indoor recreation,

(f) child minding, or

(g) any other like facility.

"Community facility" means a building or place owned or controlled by a public authority or a body of persons which may provide for the physical, social, cultural or intellectual development or welfare of the local community, but does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this plan.
"Convenience store" means:

(a) a shop which sells a variety of small consumer goods, and

(b) is located no closer than 400 metres from commercially zoned land.

"Council" means the Council of the City of Maitland.
"Depot" means a building or place used only for the storage of any plant, machinery, materials or goods used or intended to be used by the owner or occupier of the building or place, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this clause.
"Designated State public infrastructure" means public facilities or services that are provided or financed by the State (or if provided or financed by the private sector, to the extent of any financial or in-kind contribution by the State) of the following kinds:

(a) State and regional roads,

(b) bus interchanges and bus lanes,

(c) land required for regional open space,

(d) land required for social infrastructure and facilities (such as land for schools, hospitals, emergency services and justice purposes).

"Dual occupancy" means 2 dwellings (whether attached or detached) on one lot of land (not being an individual lot in a strata plan or community title scheme), but does not include a secondary dwelling.
"Dwelling" means a room or suite of rooms occupied or used or so constructed or adapted as to be capable of being occupied or used as a separate domicile.
"Dwelling house" means a building containing one, but not more than one, dwelling.
"Educational establishment" means a building used as a school, college, technical college, academy, lecture hall, gallery or museum, but does not include a building used wholly or principally as an institution or a childcare centre.
"Entertainment facility" means a building or place used for the purpose of sport, entertainment, exhibitions or displays, and includes:

(a) sports stadiums, showgrounds, racecourses and the like, and

(b) theatres, cinemas, music halls, concert halls, open air theatres, and drive-in theatres and the like.

"Exhibition home" means a dwelling that is not intended for immediate permanent occupation and is used for purposes associated with the sale of the dwelling and similar dwellings, and includes those areas in the dwelling that are used for purposes ancillary to the sale (such as a sales office or a materials display area).
"Exhibition village" means a group of exhibition homes and any ancillary buildings (being buildings not intended for permanent occupation and used only for purposes associated with the sale of the exhibition homes, such as sales or home finance offices and materials display areas) and ancillary facilities (such as cafes, car parks and public toilets).
"Extractive industry" means an industry or undertaking, not being a mine, which depends for its operations on the winning of extractive material from the land upon which it is carried on.
"Extractive material" means sand, gravel, clay, turf, soil, rock, stone and similar substances.
"Floor space ratio" means the ratio of the gross floor area of a building to the area of the site on which the building is or is proposed to be erected.
"Forestry" includes arboriculture, silviculture, forest protection, the cutting, dressing and preparation, otherwise than in a sawmill, of wood and other forest products and the establishment of roads required for the removal of wood and forest products and for forest protection.
"Foundation height" is the distance measured from natural ground level to the top of the ground floor of a building.
"Generating works" means a building or place used for the purpose of making or generating gas, electricity or other forms of energy.
"Gross floor area" means the sum of the areas of each floor of a building where the area of each floor is taken to be the area within the outer face of the external enclosing walls, excluding:

(a) lift towers, and

(b) car parking needed to meet any requirements of the Council and any internal vehicular access thereto.

"Group home" has the same meaning as in the standard instrument prescribed by the Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Order 2006 .
"Hazardous industry" means an industry which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (such as measures to isolate the development from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would pose a significant risk, in relation to the locality:

(a) to human health, life or property, or

(b) to the biophysical environment.

"Hazardous storage establishment" means any establishment at which goods, materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (such as measures to isolate the development from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would pose a significant risk, in relation to the locality:

(a) to human health, life or property, or

(b) to the biophysical environment.

"Home activity" means an activity, pursuit, occupation or profession, carried on for personal gain in a building or a room or a number of rooms forming part of, attached to, or on the same parcel of land as, a dwelling house where:

(a) only goods made or produced on the premises and goods ancillary thereto are displayed and sold on the premises or only services are provided or based, and

(b) the activity, pursuit, occupation or profession does not involve the practice or employment on the premises of any person who is not a resident of the dwelling, and

(c) the carrying on of the activity, pursuit, occupation or profession does not:

(i) interfere with the amenity of the locality by reason of traffic generation, insufficient car parking, or the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit, oil or otherwise,

(ii) involve exposure to view from any adjacent premises or from any public place of any unsightly matter,

(iii) require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality,

(iv) involve the exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign (other than a notice, advertisement or sign (not exceeding 1 metre by 0.6 metres) exhibited on that dwelling house or dwelling to indicate the name and occupation of the resident, or a description of the activity, pursuit, occupation or profession).

"Home based child care establishment" means a dwelling providing care for up to seven children (including the caregiver’s own children), in the premises where the caregiver resides.
"Hospital" means a building or place used as a:

(a) hospital,

(b) sanatorium,

(c) health centre,

(d) nursing home, or

(e) home for aged persons, infirm persons, incurable persons or convalescent persons,

whether public or private, and includes a shop or dispensary used in conjunction therewith.
"Hotel" means any premises specified in a hotelier’s licence granted under the Liquor Act 1982 .
"Industry" means the manufacturing, assembling, altering, repairing, renovating, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, dismantling, processing or adapting of any goods or any articles, and excludes any other use elsewhere defined in this clause.
"Institution" means a mental hospital or a penal or reformative establishment.
"Intensive agriculture" means any form of agriculture which requires waste, including faeces, to be disposed of on land which is not simultaneously used for the nurturing of livestock and poultry.
"Land" includes:

(a) the sea or an arm of the sea,

(b) a bay, inlet, lagoon, lake or body of water, whether inland or and whether tidal or non-tidal, and

(c) a river, stream or watercourse, whether tidal or non-tidal.

"Light industry" means an industry, not being an offensive or hazardous industry, in which the processes carried on, or the transportation involved or the machinery or materials used, do not interfere unreasonably with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit, oil or otherwise, but does not include an activity elsewhere defined in this clause.
"Marina" means a pontoon, jetty, pier or the like, used or intended to be used to provide moorings for boats used for pleasure or recreation, and includes:

(a) slipways, and

(b) facilities for the repair, maintenance and fuelling of, or the provision of accessories and parts for boats, or for boating enthusiasts, and

(c) any associated facilities for the storage or provision of food.

"Market" means retail premises comprising an open-air area or an existing building used for the purpose of selling, exposing or offering goods, merchandise or materials for sale by independent stall holders, and includes temporary structures and existing permanent structures used for that purpose on an intermittent or occasional basis.
"Materials recycling depot" means land used for the collection, storage, abandonment or sale of scrap metals, waste paper, rags, bottles or other scrap materials or goods or used for the collecting, dismantling, storage, salvaging or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or for the sale of parts thereof.
"Medium density housing" means 2 or more dwellings on a site where each dwelling has an individual entrance and direct private access to private open space at natural ground level for the exclusive use of the occupants of the dwelling, and includes semi-detached dwellings, duplexes, villas, terraces, town-houses, cluster housing, integrated housing development, mobile home parks and the like.
"Mining" means the winning of any material to which the Mining Act 1992 or the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 applies and the storage and primary processing of the material obtained.
"Motel" means premises, not being a hotel, used for the temporary or short term accommodation of travellers.
"Natural ground level" means the level of land as if no development has taken place.
"Offensive industry" means an industry which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to minimise its impact on the locality have been employed (including, for example, measures to isolate the industry from existing or likely future development on other land in the locality), would emit a polluting discharge (including noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact on the locality or on existing or likely future development on other land in the locality.
"Office premises" means a building or place used for the purpose of administration, clerical, technical, professional or like activities (except dealing with members of the public on a direct and regular basis or otherwise than by appointment), but does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this clause.
"Passenger transport terminal" means any building or place used for the assembly and dispersal of passengers travelling by any form of passenger transport, including any required facilities for parking, manoeuvring, storage or routine servicing of any vehicle forming part of that undertaking.
"Place of assembly" means a public hall, theatre, cinema, music hall, concert hall, dance hall, open-air theatre, drive-in theatre, music bowl or any other building of a like character used as such and whether used for the purpose of gain or not, but does not include a place of worship, an institution or an educational establishment.
"Place of worship" means a building or place used for the purpose of religious worship, whether or not the building or place is also used for counselling, social events or religious training by a congregation or religious group.
"Plant nursery" means a building or place used for both the growing and selling by retail of plants, whether or not landscape supplies (including earth products) and other landscape and horticultural products are also sold.
"Prostitution" has the same meaning as in the Summary Offences Act 1988 .
"Public building" means a building used as offices or for administrative or other like purposes by the Crown, a statutory body, a council or an organisation established for public purposes.
"Recreation area" means:

(a) a children’s playground,

(b) an area used for sporting activities or sporting facilities, or

(c) an area used to provide facilities for recreational activities which promote the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community, being facilities provided by:

(i) the Council, or

(ii) a body of persons associated for the purposes of the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community,

but does not include a racecourse or a showground.
"Recreation facility" means a building or place used for sporting activities, recreation or leisure activities, whether or not operated for the purpose of gain, but does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this clause.
"Refreshment room" means a restaurant, cafe, tea room, eating house or the like.
"Residential flat building" means a building containing two or more dwellings, and includes dwellings located above business premises, but does not include development elsewhere defined in this plan.
"Restricted premises" means a building or place used or intended for use as a shop in which:

(a) any classified publications (other than unrestricted publications) within the meaning of the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Enforcement Act 1995 are available for sale or rental to the public, or

(b) a business is conducted involving selling or disposing of products to which section 578E of the Crimes Act 1990 applies, or

(c) a business is conducted, an object of which is the display or exhibition of any article that is primarily concerned with sexual behaviour, but which is not printed matter.

"Road" means a public thoroughfare used for the passage of humans, vehicles or animals.
"Roadside stall" means a place used for the purpose of offering for sale by retail agricultural goods produced on the allotment on which the place is located or on allotments in the locality, but only where the building, structure or device used for offering produce for sale is of a temporary nature (that is, capable of being erected or dismantled in 24 hours).
"Road transport terminal" means a building or place used mainly for the bulk handling of goods for transport by road, and includes facilities for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to transport those goods and for the parking, servicing and repair of those vehicles.
"Rural industry" means:

(a) the handling, selling, treating, processing or packing of rural products, and

(b) the regular servicing or repairing of plant or equipment used for the purposes of agriculture, aquaculture or a rural industry in the locality.

"Rural tourist accommodation" means accommodation provided for tourists as a use of land ancillary to an agricultural operation undertaken on the land (or contiguous land in the same ownership) in a manner which is compatible with and complementary to the agricultural operation.
"Rural worker’s dwelling" means a dwelling:

(a) located on land on which a dwelling house is or is intended to be located, and

(b) used as the principal place of residence by persons employed in agriculture, aquaculture, intensive agriculture or a rural industry conducted on that land.

"Sawmill" means a mill handling, cutting and processing timber from logs or baulks.
"Seniors housing" means residential accommodation that consists of:

(a) a residential care facility, or

(b) a hostel, or

(c) a group of self-contained dwellings, or

(d) a combination of these,

and that is, or is intended to be, used permanently for:

(e) seniors or people who have a disability, or

(f) people who live in the same household with seniors or people who have a disability, or

(g) staff employed to assist in the administration of the residential accommodation or in the provision of services to persons living in the accommodation,

but does not include a hospital.
"Service station" means a building or place used for the fuelling of motor vehicles involving the sale by retail of petrol, oils and other petroleum products, whether or not the building or place is also used for any one or more of the following:

(a) the hire of trailers,

(b) the sale by retail of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles,

(c) the washing and greasing of motor vehicles,

(d) the repairing and servicing of motor vehicles involving the use of hand tools (other than repairing and servicing which involves top overhaul of motors, body building, panel beating, spray painting, or suspension, transmission or chassis restoration),

(e) the retail sale or hire of other goods within an ancillary area.

"Serviced apartment" means a building or part of a building providing self-contained tourist and visitor accommodation that is regularly serviced or cleaned by the owner or manager of the building or part of the building or the owner’s or manager’s agents.
"Shop" means a building or place used for the purpose of selling items, whether by retail or auction, for hiring of items or for displaying items for the purpose of selling or hiring them (whether the items are goods or materials).
"Stock and sale yard" means a building or place used for the purpose of offering livestock or poultry for sale.
"Storey" means:

(a) the space between two floors,

(b) the space between one floor and the ceiling or roof above, and

(c) a foundation area over 1.5 metres in height.

A storey includes garages, workshops, storerooms and the like.
Storeys which exceed 4.5 metres in height are counted as two storeys.
"Tavern" means premises licensed for the sale of liquor but which do not provide overnight accommodation on a commercial basis.
"The Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
"The map" means the map marked “ Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 ”, as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets or maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:

Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal or publication on the NSW legislation website. Information about the order of gazettal or publication can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.

Maitland Local Environment Plan 1993 (Amendment No 1)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 2)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 5)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 8)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 10)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 11)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 13)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 14)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 22)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 25)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 33)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 35)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 36)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 37)

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Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 50)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 51)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 54)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 55)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 56) RZ 95008

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 57)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 59) -Sheet 3

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 60)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 63)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 64)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 69)

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Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 71)

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Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 89)

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Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 100) -Sheets 1-5

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 101) -Sheets 1 and 2

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Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 104)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 105)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 107)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 108)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 109)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 110) -Sheets 1 and 2

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 111)

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 112) -Sheets 1 and 2

Maitland Local Environmental Plan 1993 (Amendment No 115) -Sheets 1 and 2

"Tourist accommodation" means a building or buildings substantially used for the temporary accommodation of tourists, visitors and travellers which may have facilities for the convenience of patrons, such as restaurants, convention areas and the like, but does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this clause or a building or place used for a purpose elsewhere defined in this clause.
"Transport depot" means a building or place used for the parking or storage of motor powered or motor drawn vehicles used in connection with a passenger transport undertaking, business, industry or shop.
"Turf farming" means the commercial cultivation, and removal from land, of turf.
"Urban release area" means an area of land that is shown edged heavy black and lettered “Urban Release Area” on the map.
"Utility undertaking" means any undertaking carried on by or by authority of any Government department, or in pursuance of any Commonwealth or State Act, for the purpose of:

(a) railway, road, water or air transport, or wharf or river undertakings,

(b) the provision of sewerage or drainage services,

(c) the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas,

(d) telecommunications facilities,

(e) firefighting facilities, or

(f) paramedical facilities.

"Vehicle body repair workshop" means a building or place used for the repair of vehicles or agricultural machinery, involving body building, panel beating or spray painting.
"Vehicle repair station" means a building or place used for the purpose of carrying out repairs or the sale and fitting of accessories to vehicles or agricultural machinery, not being a vehicle body repair workshop.
"Veterinary hospital" means a building or place used for diagnosing or surgically or medically treating animals, whether or not animals are kept on the premise for treatment.
"Warehouse or distribution centre" means any building or place used mainly for:

(a) storing goods, or

(b) handling or displaying items (whether goods or materials) which have been produced or manufactured for sale, other than retail sale, to the public from the building or place.

"Wetlands conservation" means the management of wetland, which is consistent with practices authorised by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

(2) In this plan a reference to a map is a reference to a map deposited in the office of the Council.

(3) Headings to provisions of this plan form part of this plan.

(4) Notes in the text of this plan do not form part of this plan.