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

DICTIONARY

(Clause 6)

"consent authority" for a development application means:

(a) except as provided by paragraph (b)-the council of the area in which it is proposed to carry out the development, or
(b) if, another environmental planning instrument provides for another consent authority for the kind of development proposed-the other consent authority.
"critical habitat" means an area or areas of land comprising the habitat of an endangered species, population or ecological community.
"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.
"environmental planning instrument" means a State environmental planning policy, a regional environmental plan or a local environmental plan, and includes a deemed environmental planning instrument.
"floor space ratio" in relation to a building, means the ratio of the gross floor area of the building (exclusive of the area of any carport or garage) to the area of the allotment on which the building is or is proposed to be erected.
"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 (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 lines of the outer face of the external wall, and
(b) lift towers, cooling towers, machinery and plant rooms, ancillary storage space and vertical air-conditioning ducts, and
(c) car parking needed to meet any requirements of the council and any internal access to the car parking, and
(d) space for the loading and unloading of goods.
"heritage conservation area" means land identified in another environmental planning instrument as a heritage conservation area, and includes buildings, works, relics, trees and places situated on or within the 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) described as a heritage item in an environmental planning instrument.
"heritage significance" means historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, natural or aesthetic significance.
"multi unit housing" means a development resulting in two or more dwellings and includes dual occupancies, terraces houses, villas, townhouses, cluster housing, integrated housing, and residential flat buildings.
"site analysis" means the process of identification and analysis of key features of the site and immediate surroundings to assist in understanding how future dwellings will relate to each other and to their locality.
"streetscape" means the character of a locality (whether it be a street or precinct) defined by the spatial arrangement and visual appearance of built and landscape features when viewed from the street.
"the Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .



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