Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - Made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 - As at 17 May 2002 - Reg 010 of 1980 TABLE OF PROVISIONS TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Name of Policy 2. Definitions 3. Aims, objectives etc 4. Application of Policy 4A. Policy does not apply to complying development 5. Relationship to other environmental planning instruments 6. Making of applications 7. Consent may be granted 8. Concurrence 9. Objections under s 342NA etc Schedule 1 (Repealed) STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 1 Name of Policy 1 Name of Policy This State environmental planning policy may be cited as State Environmental Planning Policy No 1—Development Standards (hereinafter referred to as "the Policy"). STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 2 Definitions 2 Definitions In this Policy, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires: "Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. "development application" includes an application for consent referred to in clause 7 (1) of the Miscellaneous Acts (Planning) Savings and Transitional Provisions Regulation 1980. "development standards" has the meaning ascribed thereto in section 4 (1) of the Act. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 3 Aims, objectives etc 3 Aims, objectives etc This Policy provides flexibility in the application of planning controls operating by virtue of development standards in circumstances where strict compliance with those standards would, in any particular case, be unreasonable or unnecessary or tend to hinder the attainment of the objects specified in section 5 (a) (i) and (ii) of the Act. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 4 Application of Policy 4 Application of Policy (1) This Policy applies to the State, except as provided by this clause. (2) This Policy does not apply to the land shown edged heavy black and shaded on the map marked “ State Environmental Planning Policy No 1—Development Standards (Amendment No 5) ” deposited in the head office of the Department of Planning and copies of which are deposited in the office of Wollongong City Council. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 4A Policy does not apply to complying development 4A Policy does not apply to complying development This Policy does not apply to complying development. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 5 Relationship to other environmental planning instruments 5 Relationship to other environmental planning instruments This policy prevails over any inconsistency between it and any other environmental planning instrument, whenever made. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 6 Making of applications 6 Making of applications Where development could, but for any development standard, be carried out under the Act (either with or without the necessity for consent under the Act being obtained therefor) the person intending to carry out that development may make a development application in respect of that development, supported by a written objection that compliance with that development standard is unreasonable or unnecessary in the circumstances of the case, and specifying the grounds of that objection. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 7 Consent may be granted 7 Consent may be granted Where the consent authority is satisfied that the objection is well founded and is also of the opinion that granting of consent to that development application is consistent with the aims of this Policy as set out in clause 3, it may, with the concurrence of the Director, grant consent to that development application notwithstanding the development standard the subject of the objection referred to in clause 6. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 8 Concurrence 8 Concurrence The matters which shall be taken into consideration in deciding whether concurrence should be granted are: (a) whether non-compliance with the development standard raises any matter of significance for State or regional environmental planning, and (b) the public benefit of maintaining the planning controls adopted by the environmental planning instrument. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - REG 9 Objections under s 342NA etc 9 Objections under s 342NA etc An objection made or purporting to have been made under section 342NA, or 342VA of the Local Government Act 1919 at any time before this Policy takes effect, not being an objection which had prior to 1 September 1980 been referred to the Local Government Appeals Tribunal, shall be deemed to be an objection referred to in clause 6. STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - NOTES Reprint history: Reprint No 1 29 August 1988 STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 1--DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS - NOTES Historical notes The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes: ______________________________________________________________________ |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| Table of amending instrumentsState Environmental Planning Policy No 1—Development Standards published in Gazette No 152 of 17.10.1980, p 5413 and amended in Gazettes of 14.6.1985, 14.2.1986, 26.6.1987 and 31.12.1992 and by Act No 152, 1997 as as follows: State Environmental Planning Policy No 1—Development Standards (Amendment No 5) (GG No 87 of 17.5.2002, p 2974) Table of amendments ___________________________________________________________________ |___________________________________________________________________| |___________________________________________________________________| |___________________________________________________________________|