New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY (INFRASTRUCTURE) 2007 - REG 48B

48B Development on land to which SEPP 14 applies

(1) This clause applies to land to which State Environmental Planning Policy No 14-Coastal Wetlands applies.

(2) Development for the purpose of bush fire hazard reduction work may be carried out by any person without consent on land to which this clause applies if:

(a) the land is within 20 metres of a dwelling house, secondary dwelling, dual occupancy, multi dwelling housing, residential flat building, educational establishment, hospital, child care centre, attached dwelling, boarding house, group home, hostel, semi-detached dwelling, seniors housing, residential accommodation, residential aged care facility or retirement village within the meaning of the Retirement Villages Act 1999 , that was in existence immediately before the commencement of this clause, and

(b) the bush fire hazard reduction work does not involve the use of fire, and

(c) the bush fire hazard reduction work is carried out under section 66, 70, 73 or 74E the Rural Fires Act 1997 , and

(d) the bush fire hazard reduction work is consistent with the the standards relating to bush fire hazard reduction set out in the Department’s and NSW Rural Fire Service’s joint publication Standards for Bush Fire Hazard Reduction Works in SEPP 14-Coastal Wetlands published on the website of the Department.

(3) Development for the purpose of maintaining a fire trail may be carried out by a public authority without consent on land to which this clause applies if:

(a) the development is consistent with the applicable bush fire risk management plan under the Rural Fires Act 1997 , and

(b) the fire trails are recorded as being fire trails on a publicly available Bush Fire Management Committee Fire Trail Register maintained by a Bush Fire Management Committee, and

(c) the development does not involve the use of fire, the widening of a fire trail, any clearing of vegetation (other than of regrowth on a fire trail) or any excavation.