New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY NO 53--METROPOLITAN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT - REG 3

3 Aims

(1) This Policy aims to encourage the provision of housing in metropolitan areas that will:

(a) broaden the choice of building types and locations available in the housing market, and

(b) make more efficient use of existing infrastructure and services, and

(c) reduce the consumption of land for housing and associated urban development on the urban fringe, and

(d) be of good design.

(2) These aims are to be achieved:

(a) by establishing planning controls that will provide opportunities for a variety of housing types, such as multi unit housing or multi unit housing combined with development for any other purpose to be developed in areas the councils of which have not adopted residential development strategies approved by the Minister, and

(b) by setting out design principles that, if followed, will achieve built form that responds to the characteristics of its site and location, and

(c) by encouraging councils to prepare and adopt residential development strategies and supporting local environmental plans and policies that will achieve those aims, and by allowing local government areas to be exempted from the whole or parts of this policy when those strategies and plans are in place.

(3) In addition, this Policy aims to simplify and streamline certain aspects of the planning system relating to residential development:

(a) by revising the provisions in a number of State environmental planning instruments to improve their operation, and

(b) by restating the revised provisions of those environmental planning instruments in a single policy written in a manner that is easy to understand.