STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY (AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING) 2009

Table of Provisions

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

• 1 Name of Policy
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Aims of Policy
• 4 Interpretation--general
• 5 Interpretation--references to equivalent land use zones
• 6 Affordable housing
• 7 Land to which Policy applies
• 8 Relationship with other environmental planning instruments
• 9 Suspension of covenants, agreements and instruments

PART 2 - NEW AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING

Division 1 - In-fill affordable housing

• 10 Development to which Division applies
11, 12. (Repealed)
• 13 Floor space ratios
• 14 Standards that cannot be used to refuse consent
• 15 Design requirements
• 16 Continued application of SEPP 65
• 16A Character of local area
• 17 Must be used for affordable housing for 10 years
• 18 Subdivision

Division 2 - Secondary dwellings

• 19 Definition
• 20 Land to which Division applies
• 21 Development to which Division applies
• 22 Development may be carried out with consent
• 23 Complying development
• 24 No subdivision

Division 3 - Boarding houses

• 25 Definition
• 26 Land to which Division applies
• 27 Development to which Division applies
• 28 Development may be carried out with consent
• 29 Standards that cannot be used to refuse consent
• 30 Standards for boarding houses
• 30AA Boarding houses in Zone R2 Low Density Residential
• 30A Character of local area

Division 4 - Supportive accommodation

• 31 Land to which Division applies
• 32 Development to which Division applies
• 33 Development may be carried out without consent

Division 5 - Residential flat buildings--social housing providers, public authorities and joint ventures

• 34 Land to which Division applies
• 35 Development to which Division applies
• 36 Development may be carried out with consent
• 37 Site compatibility certificates
• 38 Must be used for affordable housing for 10 years
• 39 Continued application of SEPP 65

Division 6 - Residential development--Land and Housing Corporation

• 40 Development may be carried out without consent
• 41 Exempt development

Division 7 - Group homes

• 42 Definitions
• 43 Development in prescribed zones
• 44 Exempt development existing group homes
• 45 Complying development--group homes
• 46 Determination of development applications

Division 8 - Complying development on certain land--secondary dwellings and group homes

• 46A Application
• 46B Development standards for bush fire prone land
• 46C Development standards for flood control lots
• 46D Development standards for land near Siding Spring Observatory

PART 3 - RETENTION OF EXISTING AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING

• 47 Interpretation
• 48 Land to which Part applies
• 49 Buildings to which Part applies
• 50 Reduction of availability of affordable housing
• 51 Contributions for affordable housing

PART 4 - MISCELLANEOUS

• 52 No subdivision of boarding houses
• 53 Review of Policy
• 54 Savings and transitional provisions
• 54A Savings and transitional provisions--2011 amendment
• 54B Savings and transitional provisions--2013 amendment
• 54C Savings and transitional provisions--2019 amendment
• 55 Repeal
• 56 Savings and transitional provisions--site compatibility amendments
• 57 Savings and transitional provision--2020 amendments (bush fire prone land)
• SCHEDULE 1
• SCHEDULE 2
Schedule 3 (Repealed)