New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WOLLONGONG LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1990 - REG 10B

10B Development without consent

(1) Development carried out by or on behalf of the Council for the purpose of the following may be carried out on any land, except land within a heritage conservation area or containing a heritage item, or subject to the provisions of State Environmental Planning Policy No 58-Protecting Sydney’s Water Supply without development consent:

(a) construction or maintenance of stormwater drainage, water quality treatment devices, water tanks, flood mitigation structures, recreation areas, public amenities and temporary storage facilities,

(b) installation or maintenance of street furniture, such as seats, Council information signs, street signs, street lights, bus shelters, garbage and recycling containers and bins, bollards, flag poles, telephone kiosks and the like, but not fixed outdoor vending machines,

(c) construction and maintenance of roads, footpaths, cycleways, parking areas, fire trails, walking tracks and other public pedestrian areas, including tree planting and repaving, street surfacing, reconstruction of kerbs and gutters, and the like,

(d) installation or maintenance of park furniture, including seats, picnic tables, barbecue units and shelters, awnings and shade structures, gazebos and pergolas, bollards, playground equipment, flag poles, bridges, staircases, boardwalks, lighting (excluding ovals, tennis courts and the like) and Council information signs,

(e) installation and maintenance of goal posts, sight screens, fencing and similar ancillary sporting structures on sporting or playing fields for use in the playing or performance of sporting events (excluding grandstands, dressing sheds and other like structures),

(f) installation and maintenance of temporary structures for special events, including marquees, booth toilets, stages, tents, scaffolds and the like,

(g) bush regeneration, landscaping, gardening, tree planting, tree maintenance and tree removal,

(h) other works or activities approved by the Council as part of a plan of management for public land (excluding the construction of buildings or activities excluded by paragraphs (a)-(g)),

(i) the dedication of land owned by the Council for a public road,

(j) the approval of a plan of survey defining an area of public road to be closed under the Roads Act 1993 .

(2) Bushfire hazard reduction may be carried out under section 100C of the Rural Fires Act 1997 without development consent.