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PORT STEPHENS LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2000 -

DICTIONARY

"abattoir" means a building or place used for the slaughter of animals, whether or not it is used for the processing, manufacture or distribution of animal by-products, and includes a knackery.
"advertisement" means the display of symbols, messages or other devices for promotional purposes or for conveying information, instructions, directions or the like, whether or not the display includes the erection of a structure or the carrying out of a work.
"agriculture" means the cultivation of crops, and the keeping and breeding of livestock, bees, worms or poultry and other birds, and the like, for commercial purposes, but does not include an intensive agricultural pursuit, intensive agriculture, or clearing native vegetation.
"airport" means a landing and taking-off area for civil aircraft, with facilities for aircraft maintenance and passenger arrival and departure.
"animal establishment" means a building or place in or on which the commercial boarding, breeding, keeping, maintaining, receiving or training of horses, dogs or cats is carried out, and includes riding schools and the like.
"appointed day" means the day on which this plan takes effect.
"aquaculture" means the propagation or rearing of marine, freshwater or estuarine fish or other organisms and includes a farm established for that purpose using an artificially created body of water.
"archaeological site" means a site of archaeological significance listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2.
"arterial road" means any existing road that predominantly carries through traffic from region to another, identified as being arterial in the Council’s Road Hierarchy Policy .
"bed and breakfast establishment" means a dwelling-house used (in addition to its use as a principal place of residence) for the provision of temporary accommodation for not more than 6 tourists or travellers at any one time in not more than 3 bedrooms in the dwelling-house.
"boarding-house" means a building or place:

(a) where accommodation, meals and laundry facilities are provided to the residents of the building or place, and
(b) which is the principal place of residence of the majority of residents, and
(c) which is not licensed to sell liquor under the Liquor Act 1982 .
"brothel" means premises habitually used for the purposes of prostitution. Premises may constitute a brothel even though used by only one prostitute for the purposes of prostitution. It includes any premises where acts of prostitution take place, irrespective of any other services which may also be provided, such as massage, relaxation therapy, photography, or other services of a like nature.
"building line or setback" means the horizontal distance between the property boundary or other stated boundary and a building wall or the outside face of a balcony, deck or the like, or the supporting posts or a carport or verandah roof.
"bulky goods sales room or showroom" means a building or place used for the retail sale or auction, or the hire or display of goods or materials which are of a size, shape or weight requiring:
(a) a large area for handling, storage or display, or
(b) direct vehicular access to the site by the public, for loading items into their vehicles after purchase,
but does not include a building or place used for the sale of foodstuffs or clothing.
"bus station" means a building or place used as a terminal for the assembly and dispersal of passengers travelling by bus.
"bush fire prone land" means land recorded as bush fire prone land on a map for the area certified as referred to in section 146 (2) of the Act.
"bushfire hazard reduction" means the removal, burning or destruction of any inflammable matter or other material necessary for the prevention of the outbreak, spread or extension of a bushfire or other fire.
"camp or caravan site" means a site used for the purpose of:
(a) placing moveable 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.
"child care centre" means a building or place which is used (whether or not for profit) for the purpose of educating, minding or caring for children (whether or not any of the children are related to the owner or operator), but only if the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) the children number 6 or more, are under 6 years of age, and do not attend a government school, or a registered non-government school, within the meaning of the Education Act 1990 , and
(b) the building or place does not provide residential care for any of the children (other than those related to the owner or operator).
"clearing native vegetation" has the same meaning as in the Native Vegetation Act 2003 .
The term is defined as follows:
"clearing native vegetation" means any one or more of the following:
(a) cutting down, felling, thinning, logging or removing native vegetation,
(b) killing, destroying, poisoning, ringbarking, uprooting or burning native vegetation.
(See Division 3 of Part 3 of the Native Vegetation Act 2003 for the exclusion of routine agricultural management and other farming activities from constituting the clearing of native vegetation if the landholder can establish that any clearing was carried out for the purpose of those activities.)
"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 .
"commercial premises" means a building or place used as an office or for other business or commercial purposes, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Dictionary.
"community facility" means a building or place operated by a public authority or by a corporation which provides for the physical, social, cultural or intellectual development or welfare of the local community, but does not include a building or place defined elsewhere in this Dictionary.
"community land" means land classified or reclassified as community land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .
"Council" means the Council of Port Stephens.
"dam" means a water storage structure with earthen walls or walls made of other material.
"demolish" a heritage item or a building, work, relic, tree or place within a heritage conservation area means wholly or partly destroy or dismantle the heritage item or building, work, relic, tree or place.
"depot" means a building or place used for the servicing, repair and storage of any plant, machinery, motor vehicles or stock of materials or spare parts used in the course of any one business or industrial undertaking or public utility undertaking, but does not include any part of the building or place used for sales by retail, wholesale or otherwise.
"dual occupancy housing" means housing consisting of 2 (but not more than 2) dwellings, whether attached or detached, on a single allotment of land (or which would be on a single allotment were it not for the fact that the allotment is to be subdivided as part of the development that gives rise to the existence of the 2 dwellings on the land concerned).
"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 1 but not more than 1 dwelling.
"earthworks" means excavation or filling.
"educational establishment" means a building or place used as a school, college, university, technical college, academy, lecture hall, gallery or museum, and includes the use of the building or place for any community use, commercial operation or associated ancillary uses, but does not include a building used wholly or principally as an institution or child care centre.
"environmentally sensitive area of State significance" means:
(a) coastal waters of the state, or
(b) land to which State Environmental Planning Policy No 14-Coastal Wetlands or State Environmental Planning Policy No 26-Littoral Rainforests applies, or
(c) land reserved as an aquatic reserve under the Fisheries Management Act 1994 or as a marine park under the Marine Parks Act 1997 , or
(d) land within a wetland of international significance declared under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands or within a World heritage area declared under the World Heritage Convention, or
(e) land identified in this or any other environmental planning instrument as being of high Aboriginal cultural significance or high biodiversity significance, or
(f) land reserved as a State conservation area under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 , or
(g) land, places, buildings or structures listed on the State Heritage Register, or
(h) land reserved or dedicated under the Crown Lands Act 1989 for the preservation of flora, fauna, geological formations or for other environmental protection purposes, or
(i) land identified as being critical habitat under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or Part 7A of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 .
"exhibition home" means a building not used for residential purposes, constructed as a dwelling, and temporarily on display to the public for promotional purposes and includes a sales office.
"extractive industry" means:
(a) the winning of extractive material including sand, gravel, clay, turf, soil, rock, stone or similar substances, or
(b) an 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, and includes any washing, crushing, grinding, milling or separating into different sizes of that extractive material on that land.
"flood prone land" means land indicated on the map marked “ Flood Prone Land ” as amended from time to time.
"forestry" includes arboriculture, silviculture, forest protection, the cutting, dressing and preparation, other 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.
"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 closing walls as measured at a height of 1,400 millimetres above each floor level excluding:
(a) columns, fin walls, sun control devices and any elements, projections or works outside the general line of the outer face of the external walls, and
(b) lift towers, cooling towers, machinery and plant rooms and ancillary storage space and vertical air-conditioning ducts, and
(c) car-parking needed to meet any requirements of the council and any internal access thereto, and
(d) space for the loading and unloading of goods.
"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 industry from other land in the locality that is used or likely to be used, for other purposes) would pose a significant risk in the locality:
(a) to human health, life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment.
"hazardous storage establishment" means a building or place 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 establishment from other land in the locality that is used, or likely to be used, for other purposes), would pose a significant risk in the locality:
(a) to human health, life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment.
"health care professional" means a person who provides professional health services to members of the public, and includes:
(a) a podiatrist registered under the Podiatrists Act 1989 ,
(b) a chiropractor or osteopath or chiropractor and osteopath registered under the Chiropractors and Osteopaths Act 1991 ,
(c) a physiotherapist registered under the Physiotherapists Registration Act 1945 , and
(d) an optometrist registered under the Optometrists Act 1930 .
"health consulting rooms" means a room or a number of rooms forming either the whole of or part of, attached to or within the curtilage of a dwelling-house and used by not more than two legally qualified medical practitioners or by not more than two dentists within the meaning of the Dentists Act 1989 , or by not more than two health care professionals, who practise therein the profession of medicine, dentistry or health care respectively, and if more than one, practise in partnership, and who employ not more than two employees in connection with that practice.
"height", in relation to a building, means the maximum height of the building measured vertically from the natural ground level or the finished ground level of the completed building, whichever is the lower.
"helicopter landing site" means a place not open to the public used for the take off and landing of helicopters.
"heliport" means a place open to the public used for the take-off and landing of helicopters, whether or not it includes:
(a) a terminal building, or
(b) facilities for the parking, storage or repair of helicopters.
"heritage conservation area" means land shown edged by a heavy black broken line on the map and listed in Part 2 of Schedule 2 and includes buildings, works, relics, trees and places situated on or within that land.
"heritage item" means a building, work, relic, tree or place (which may or may not be situated on or within land that is a heritage conservation area) listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2.
"heritage significance" means historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance.
"home-based child care" or "family day care home" means a dwelling used by a resident of the dwelling for the supervision and care of one or more children and which satisfies the following conditions:
(a) the person providing the child care is appropriately licensed under the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 ,
(b) the number of children at the dwelling (including children related to the carer or licensee) does not at any one time exceed 7 children under the age of 12 years, including no more than 5 who do not ordinarily attend school.
"home employment" means the use of any land or buildings within an allotment on which a dwelling is located, for any office, industry or business, but only where such use:
(a) is undertaken by the permanent residents of the dwelling whether or not others are also employed, and
(b) does not interfere with the amenity of the adjoining properties or the locality in which the dwelling is situated, and
(c) does not involve exposure to view from any adjacent premises or from any public place of any unsightly matter, and
(d) does not require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality,
but does not include the use of the land or buildings for a home occupation or a brothel.
"home occupation" means an occupation carried on in a dwelling-house or in a dwelling in urban housing by the permanent residents of the dwelling-house or dwelling which does not involve:
(a) registration of the building under the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962 , or
(b) the employment of persons other than those residents, or
(c) interference with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste waters, waste products or grit or oil or otherwise, or
(d) the display of goods, whether in a window or otherwise, or
(e) the exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign (other than a notice, advertisement or sign exhibited on that dwelling-house, dwelling, front fence or a pole within the property boundary such that the height of the sign is not more than 1.5m, to indicate the name and occupation of the resident), or
(f) the sale of items (whether goods or materials) or the exposure or offer for sale of items, by retail.
"hospital" means a building or place (other than an institution) used for the purpose of providing professional health care services (such as preventative or convalescent care, diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment, care for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric care or counselling and services provided by health care professionals) to people admitted as in-patients (whether or not out-patients are also cared for or treated there), and includes:
(a) ancillary facilities for the accommodation of nurses or other health care workers, ancillary shops or restaurants and ancillary accommodation for persons receiving health care or for their visitors, and
(b) facilities situated in the building or at the place and used for educational or research purposes, whether or not they are used only by hospital staff or health care workers, and whether or not any such use is a commercial use.
"hotel" means the premises to which a hotelier’s licence granted under the Liquor Act 1982 relates.
"industry" means the manufacturing, assembling, altering, repairing, renovating, preparing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, breaking up, or adapting of any goods or any articles or any part of an article for trade or sale or gain, or as ancillary to any business, but does not include an activity elsewhere defined in this Dictionary.
"institution" means a penal or reformative establishment.
"intensive agricultural pursuit" (in relation to land in the Williams River catchment) means the use of land for agricultural purposes which include market gardening, mushroom growing, fruit growing, flower growing, viticulture, milking in a shed designed for that purpose, aquaculture or intensive animal husbandry, but does not include the use of an animal boarding or training establishment or any cultivation or husbandry carried out mainly for the personal enjoyment or consumption of its produce by the owner or occupier of the land.
"intensive agriculture" (except in relation to land in the Williams River catchment) means any form of agriculture or horticulture which:
(a) involves the confinement in an area with watering and feeding facilities where the animals are completely hand or mechanically fed for the purpose of production, or
(b) requires particular treatment or practices for the management of liquid or solid wastes to prevent the pollution of any part of the environment, or
(c) requires separation from surrounding land uses to minimise the risk of land use conflict or for any other reason.
"intensive animal husbandry" means the commercial breeding, boarding or nurturing, by a feeding method other than natural grazing, of cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry or other livestock and may involve:
(a) feed lots containing more than 5 cattle, and
(b) piggeries containing more than 5 pigs, and
(c) poultry farming establishments containing more than 20 birds.
"liquid fuel depot" means a depot or place used for the bulk storage for wholesale distribution of petrol, oil, petroleum or other inflammable liquid.
"main road" means a main road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993 .
"maintenance" in relation to a heritage item or a building, work, relic, tree or place within a heritage conservation area, means ongoing protective care. It does not include alterations, such as carrying out extensions or additions, or the introduction of new materials or technology.
"maintenance dredging" means removal of material from the sea or harbour bed or the bed of a river where the activity is for the purpose of maintaining the previously established harbour or river depth.
"major road frontage" in relation to land, means the frontage of that land to:
(a) a main or arterial road, or
(b) a road connecting with a main or arterial road, if the whole or any part of the frontage is within 90 metres (measured along the road alignment of the connecting road) of the alignment of the main or arterial road.
"marina" means a pontoon, jetty, pier, wharf or the like, used or intended to be used to provide moorings for boats used for pleasure, recreation or commercial purposes and includes:
(a) slipways, and
(b) facilities for the repair, maintenance and fuelling of or the provision of accessories and parts for, boats or boating enthusiasts, and
(c) facilities for the storage or provision of food, and
(d) facilities for wholesale and retail sales, and for commercial, industrial and heavy engineering works and other activities connected with the fishing industry.
"market" means an open-air area or an existing building used for the purpose of selling, exposing or offering goods, merchandise or materials for retail sale by independent stall holders, and includes temporary structures and existing permanent structures used for that purpose on an intermittent or occasional basis.
"material recycling facility" 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.
"medical centre" means a building or place used for the purpose of providing professional health services (such as preventative care, diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment or counselling) to out-patients only.
"mineral sand mine" means a mine for or in connection with the obtaining of ilmenite, monazite, rutile, zircon or similar materials.
"mine" means any place at which there is obtained, or from which there is removed, any material to which the Mining Act 1992 , the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1982 , or the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 applies, and includes a place used for the storage and primary processing of the material obtained.
"mortuary" means a building used for the preparation or storage of bodies before their burial or cremation, and may include a viewing room.
"motor showroom" means a building or place used for the display or sale of motor vehicles, caravans or boats, whether or not motor vehicle accessories, caravan accessories or boat accessories are also sold or displayed therein or thereon.
"natural ground level" of a site means the level of the site as if the site were undeveloped.
"Nelson Bay (West) Area" means the land shown edged heavy black on the map marked “ Nelson Bay (West) Area ” deposited in the office of the Council.
"offensive 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 industry from other land in the locality that is used, or likely to be used, for other purposes), would emit a polluting discharge (such as noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the use of that other land in the locality.
"offensive storage establishment" means any establishment at which goods, materials or products are stored and 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 establishment from other land in the locality that is used, or likely to be used, for other purposes), would emit a polluting discharge (such as noise) in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the use of that other land in the locality.
"operational land" means land classified or reclassified as operational land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .
"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 purposes of gain or not, but does not include a place of public worship, an institution or an educational establishment.
"place of public worship" means a building or place used for the purpose of religious worship, by a congregation or religious group, whether or not the building or place is also used for counselling, social events, instruction or religious training.
"precinct", in relation to the Nelson Bay (West) Area, means a precinct shown by black edging and identified as “Foreshore”, “Hill Tops”, “Lower Slopes”, “Town Centre Edge”, “Town Centre Housing”, “Upper Slopes” or “Wahgunyah Neighbourhood”, on the map marked “ Nelson Bay (West) Area ” deposited in the office of the Council.
"private open space" means an area of land external to a building that is used for private outdoor purposes ancillary to the use of the building.
"public entertainment" means entertainment to which admission may ordinarily be gained by members of the public on payment of money or other consideration:
(a) whether or not some (but not all) persons are admitted free of charge, and
(b) whether or not the money or other consideration demanded:
(i) as a charge for a meal or other refreshment before admission is granted, or
(ii) as a charge for the entertainment after admission is granted.
"public land" means any land (including a public reserve) vested in or under the control of Council, but does not include:
(a) a public road, or
(b) land to which the Crown Lands Act 1989 applies, or
(c) a common, or
(d) land subject to the Trustees of Schools of Arts Enabling Act 1902 , or
(e) a regional park under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 .
"public reserve" has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"public utility undertaking" means any of the following undertakings carried on or permitted to be carried on by or by authority of any Government Department or under the authority of or in pursuance of any Commonwealth or State Act:
(a) railway, road transport, water transport, air transport, wharf or river undertakings,
(b) undertakings for the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas or the provision of sewerage or drainage services,
and a reference to a person carrying on a public utility undertaking includes a reference to a council, electricity supply authority, Government Department, corporation, firm or authority carrying on the undertaking.
"race track" means a place used for racing activities involving motor vehicles and includes associated training and servicing whether or not the place is also used in part for a club.
"recreation area" means:
(a) a children’s playground,
(b) an area used for sporting activities or sporting facilities,
(c) an area used to provide recreational facilities for the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of the community, and
(d) an area used by a body of persons associated for the purposes of the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of the community to provide recreational facilities for those purposes,
but does not include a racecourse, race track or a showground.
"recreation facility" means a building or place used for sporting, recreation or leisure activities, whether or not operated for the purpose of gain, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Dictionary.
"relic" means any deposit, object or material evidence (which may consist of human remains) relating to:
(a) the use or settlement of the area of Port Stephens, not being Aboriginal habitation, which is more than 50 years old, or
(b) Aboriginal habitation of the area of Port Stephens before or after its occupation by persons of European extraction.
"restaurant" means a building or place used principally for providing prepared food to people for consumption on the premises or to take away (or for preparing both kinds of food).
"restricted premises" means a building or place at which:
(a) publications classified Category 1 restricted or Category 2 restricted under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 of the Commonwealth are shown exhibited, displayed, sold or otherwise rendered accessible or available to the public, or
(b) a business to which section 578E of the Crimes Act 1900 applies is conducted,
but does not include a newsagency or pharmacy.
"retail plant nursery" means a building or place primarily used for the retail selling of plants, whether or not it is also used for the sale of landscaping supplies (including earth products) or other landscaping and horticultural products.
"reticulated water and sewerage services" means water and sewerage services which are part of a system provided or operated (or both) by the responsible water or sewerage authority for the particular area (being Hunter Water Corporation).
"road transport terminal" means a building or place used for the principal purpose of the bulk handling of goods for transport by road, including facilities for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to transport those goods and for the parking, servicing and repair of those vehicles.
"roadside stall" means a building or place not exceeding 20 square metres in floor space or area respectively where only primary products produced on the property on which the building or place is situated are exposed or offered for sale or sold by retail.
"RTA" means the Roads and Traffic Authority constituted under the Transport Administration Act 1988 .
"rural industry" means the handling, treating, processing or packing of primary products and the processing of extractive materials.
"service station" means a building or place used for the fuelling of motor vehicles and for the sale by retail of petrol, oil or other petroleum products, whether or not the building or place is also used for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) the hiring of trailers,
(b) the retail selling or the installing of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles,
(c) the washing and greasing of motor vehicles,
(d) the repairing or servicing of motor vehicles (other than body building, panel beating or spray painting),
(e) the retail selling or hiring of small consumer goods.
"shop" means a building or place used for the purposes of selling, exposing or offering for sale by retail, goods, merchandise or materials, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Dictionary, or a building or place used for a purpose elsewhere specifically defined in this Dictionary.
"site coverage" means the proportion of a site area covered by buildings. However:
(a) in relation to residential development, the following are not included for the purpose of calculating site coverage:
(i) a basement,
(ii) pedestrian awnings adjoining the street frontage,
(iii) eaves, and
(b) in relation to commercial development, the following are not included for the purpose of calculating site coverage:
(i) a basement,
(ii) pedestrian awnings adjoining the street frontage,
(iii) unenclosed pedestrian decks adjoining the street frontage,
(iv) transparent or translucent roof structures over a landscaped area.
"swimming pool" means an excavation, structure or vessel:
(a) that is capable of being filled with water to a depth of 300 millimetres or more, and
(b) that is solely or principally used, or that is designed, manufactured or adapted to be solely or principally used, for the purpose of swimming, wading, paddling or any other human aquatic activity,
and includes a spa pool, but does not include the following:
(c) a spa bath,
(d) anything that is situated within a bathroom,
(e) anything declared by the regulations under the Swimming Pools Act 1992 not to be a swimming pool for the purposes of that Act.
"telecommunications facility" means a tower, pole or mast for the purpose of providing communications by means of electromagnetic energy and includes the construction of the facility, the attachment of the facility to any building or structure, or any activity that is ancillary or incidental to the installation of the facility, but does not include an antenna.
"the Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
"the map" means the series of maps marked “ Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 ”, as amended by the maps (or specified sheets of the map) 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.
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 1)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 3)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 6)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 8)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 14)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 16)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 17)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 18)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 19)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 20)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 21) -Sheets 1 to 7
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 24)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 27) -Sheet 1
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 32)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 33)
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 34) -Sheets 1 to 3
Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment 35)
"tourist boat" means a boat taking fare paying passengers, being a boat that is berthed or based in Port Stephens for more than 20 days per annum.
"tourist facility" means an establishment providing primarily for tourist accommodation or recreation, or both.
"urban housing" means housing consisting of 3 or more dwellings (whether attached or detached).
"utility installation" means a building or work used for a public utility undertaking.
"veterinary hospital" means a building or place used for diagnosing or surgically or medically treating animals, whether or not animals are kept on the premises for the purposes of treatment.
"warehouse" means a building or place used for the storage of goods, merchandise or materials:
(a) pending their sale and distribution to persons engaged in the retail trade, or
(b) on a casual or hire basis,
and includes any ancillary showroom.
"Williams River" means the Williams River and its tributaries (including any creek, stream or land along which water flows permanently or intermittently and which is so shown in respect of the land to which this plan applies on a 1:25,000 topographic map issued by the Department of Land and Water Conservation).
"Williams River catchment" means the land shown on the map marked “ Williams River Catchment Regional Environmental Plan 1997 ” (kept in the Newcastle office of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, and copies of which are kept in the offices of Dungog Shire Council and Port Stephens Council) being the land from which surface water run-off resulting from rainfall flows directly or indirectly in the Williams River.


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