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WOOLLAHRA LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1995 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Definitions

(Clause 5)

"advertising structure" means a structure used or to be used principally for the display of an advertisement.
"advertisement" means a display by the use of colour, pattern, symbols, messages or other devices for promotional purposes or for conveying information, instructions, directions or the like, whether or not the display includes the erection of a structure or the carrying out of a work.
"alter" in relation to a heritage item or to a building or work within a heritage conservation area or to an inter-war flat building, means:

(a) make structural changes to the outside of the heritage item, building or work or inter-war flat building, or
(b) make non-structural changes to the detail, fabric, finish or appearance of the outside of the heritage item, building or work, or inter-war flat building, but not changes that involve the maintenance of the existing detail, fabric, finish and appearance of the outside of the heritage item, building or work or inter-war flat building.
"area" of an advertisement in the form of a sign means:
(a) for a sign with only one side occupied by the matter displayed, the area within the outline of that sign,
(b) for a sign with two sides occupied by the matter displayed, the area within the outline of that sign or, where one side is larger than the other, the area within the outline of the larger side, or
(c) for any other sign, one third of the total surface area of the sign.
"arterial road" means any existing road indicated on the map by a continuous red band on white between firm black lines.
"artisan" means a person who possesses special knowledge or skill in some manual art or handicraft including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, an artist, sculptor or photographer.
"artisan’s studio" means a building or place used by an artisan for the purpose of carrying on a craft, where:
(a) not more than 3 persons (including artisans) are engaged or employed on the premises, and
(b) the carrying on of the craft does not interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of noise, vibration or any other form of pollution.
"backpackers’ accommodation" means a building which provides temporary accommodation (including a communal kitchen and laundry facilities) for travellers and tourists and which is not used as their principal place of residence, but does not include a building used as a boarding house.
"bed and breakfast accommodation" means a dwelling-house which:
(a) provides short term accommodation for travellers and tourists,
(b) is occupied by a permanent resident or residents,
(c) provides accommodation for not more than four travellers and tourists, and
(d) contains only one advertising sign which indicates the name and details of the accommodation,
but does not:
(e) contain separate food preparation and cooking facilities for the travellers and tourists,
(f) cause an interference with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of the emission of noise, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, waste water, waste products or the like, and
(g) include a building used as a backpackers’ accommodation, boarding house, serviced apartments or the like building.
"boarding house" means a building let in lodgings or a hostel, but does not include a motel or backpackers’ accommodation.
"boatshed" means a building or other structure used for the storage and routine maintenance of a boat or boats and which is associated with a private residence, and includes any skid used in connection with the building or other structure.
"bulk store" means a building or place used for the bulk storage of goods, where the goods stored or to be stored are not required for use in a shop or commercial premises on the same parcel of land or on adjoining land in the same ownership.
"bus depot" means a building or place used for the servicing, repair and garaging of buses and other vehicles used for the purposes of a bus transport undertaking.
"bus station" means a building or place used as a terminal for the assembly and dispersal of passengers travelling by bus.
"cafe" means a building or place (or both) where food and beverages are prepared for patrons and where retailing of confectionery, ice cream, beverages, cakes, sandwiches and the like may also occur and which is not licensed to serve alcoholic beverages with meals.
"car parking station" means a structure or part of a structure erected on or under land and used for the purpose of public car parking.
"car repair station" means a building or place used for the purpose of carrying out repairs to motor vehicles or agricultural machinery not being:
(a) body building,
(b) panel beating which involves dismantling, or
(c) spray painting other than of a touching-up character.
"child care centre" means a building or place which is used (whether or not for profit) for the purpose of educating, minding or caring for children (whether or not any of the children are related to the owner or operator), but only if the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) the children number 6 or more, are under 6 years of age, and do not attend a government school, or a registered non-government school, within the meaning of the Education Reform Act 1990 , and
(b) the building or place does not provide residential care for any of the children (other than those related to the owner of operator).
"civic space" means land that is used for public purposes such as a plaza, a square, footpaths, shared traffic and pedestrian zones, an arcade and a winter garden.
"classification map" means the map marked “ Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 8)-Classification Map ” as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:
Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
"club" means a building used by persons associated, or by a body incorporated, for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic or other lawful purposes whether of the same or of a different kind and whether or not the whole or a part of such building is the premises of a club registered under the Registered Clubs Act 1976 .
"commercial premises" means a building or place used as an office or for other business or commercial purposes, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or a building or place used for a purpose elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule.
"community facility" means a building or place:
(a) owned or controlled by a public authority or non-profit community organisation, and
(b) used for the physical, social, cultural or intellectual development or welfare of the community,
but does not include an educational establishment, hospital, retail premises, place of public worship or residential accommodation.
"community land" means land classified as community land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .
"conservation plan" means a document establishing the significance of a heritage item and the policies that are appropriate to enable that significance to be retained in its future use and development.
"Council" means the Woollahra Municipal Council.
"demolition", in relation to a heritage item or to a building or work within a heritage conservation area, means the damaging, defacing, destruction, pulling down or removal of the whole or part of the heritage item, building or work.
"density map" means the map marked “ Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995-Density Map ”, as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:
Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 5)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 7) (Sheet 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 9)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 18)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 30)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 37)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 38)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 43)-Density Map (Sheets 1 and 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 44)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 46)-Density Map (Sheets 1 to 5)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 54)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 57)-Density Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 60)-Density Map (Sheets 1-4)
"dual occupancy" means 2 dwellings on a single allotment of land in the form of either:
(a) one building containing 2 dwellings (known as an "attached dual occupancy"), or
(b) two separate buildings comprising of an ancillary dwelling and a principle dwelling, (collectively known as a "detached dual occupancy").
"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 on one allotment of land.
"educational establishment" means a building used as a school, college, technical college, academy, lecture hall, gallery or museum, but does not include a building used wholly or principally as an institution or child care centre.
"existing ground level" means the surveyed level of the ground surface immediately prior to the proposed development and prior to any associated excavation, development or site works.
"filming" means recording images (whether on film or video tape or electronically or by other means) for exhibition or broadcast (such as by cinema, television or the Internet or by other means), but does not include:
(a) video recording of a wedding ceremony or other private celebration or event principally for the purpose of making a record for the participants in the ceremony, celebration or event, or
(b) video recording as a visitor or tourist for non-commercial purposes, or
(c) recording for the immediate purposes of a television program that provides information by way of current affairs or daily news.
"floor space ratio", in relation to a building, means the ratio of the gross floor area of the building to the site area of the land on which the building is or is proposed to be erected.
"foreshore scenic protection area" means land shown on the land use map by black hatching and edged with a broken black line.
"generating works" means a building or place used for the purpose of making or generating gas, electricity or other forms of energy.
"gross floor area", in relation to a building, means the sum of the areas of each level of the building, including:
(a) the thickness of the external walls, and
(b) the area of voids, staircases and lift shafts, counted at each level, and
(c) that part of the area of balconies and verandahs which is in excess of 20m 2 per dwelling in the case of a building used or intended for use for residential purposes, or in excess of 10% of the site area in the case of a building used or intended for use for non-residential purposes, and
(d) any other areas of the building where the height of those areas exceeds 1.5 metres above ground level,
and excluding:
(e) car parking to meet the requirements of the Council and any vehicular access to the car park, and
(f) any area used or intended for use as a car parking station, and
(g) uncovered roof terraces, and
(h) any area used or intended for use as an arcade.
"harbour foreshore scenic protection area" means land shown on the land use map by black cross-hatching and edged with a broken black line.
"health care professional" means a person who renders professional health services to members of the public and includes:
acupuncturists,
chiropodists,
chiropractors,
dentists,
homeopaths,
medical practitioners (general practitioner or specialist),
naturopaths,
orthodontists,
osteopaths,
physiotherapists, or
any other like professionals.
"height", in relation to a building, means the greatest distance measured vertically from any point on the building to the existing ground level immediately below that point.
"height map" means the map marked “ Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995-Height Map ”, as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:
Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 3)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 5)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 6)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 9)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 32)-Height Map (Sheets 1 to 5)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 37)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 38)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 43)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 44)-Height Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 46)-Height Map (Sheets 1 to 4)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 60)-Height Map (Sheets 1-10)
"height zone" means land identified on the height map in some distinctive manner for the purpose of indicating land to which a restriction imposed by this plan on height applies.
"helipad" means an area or place not open to public use which is authorised by the Commonwealth Department of Transport and which is set apart for the taking off and landing of helicopters.
"heliport" means an area or place open to public use which is licensed by the Commonwealth Department of Transport for use by helicopters and includes terminal buildings and facilities for the parking, servicing and repair of helicopters.
"heritage conservation area" means land shown edged blue and marked “Heritage Conservation Area” on the heritage conservation map.
"heritage conservation map" means the map marked “ Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995-Heritage Conservation Map ”, as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:
Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 1)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 3)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 5)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 6)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 9)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 12)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 29)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 31)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 35)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 36)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 38)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 41)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 46)-Heritage Conservation Map (Sheets 1 to 7)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 47)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 48)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 51)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 52)-Heritage Conservation Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 55)-Heritage Conservation Map
"heritage item" means a building, work, relic, tree or place:
(a) located on land described in Part A of Schedule 3, being land shown coloured orange on the heritage conservation map, and
(b) described in Part B of Schedule 3.
"heritage item group" means two or more heritage items that may or may not be located on one site, that have heritage significance individually and collectively and that are described as a heritage item group in Part B of Schedule 3.
"heritage significance" means historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance.
"home industry" means an industry carried on in a building (other than a dwelling-house or a dwelling in a residential flat building) under the following circumstances:
(a) the building does not occupy a floor space exceeding 50 square metres and is erected within the curtilage of the dwelling-house or residential flat building occupied by the person carrying on the industry or on adjoining land owned by that person, and
(b) the industry does not:
(i) interfere with the amenity of the locality by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products or grit, oil or otherwise,
(ii) involve exposure to view from any adjacent premises or from any public place of any unsightly matter, or
(iii) require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality.
"home occupation" means an occupation carried on in a dwelling-house or in a dwelling in a residential flat building by the permanent residents of the dwelling-house or dwelling which does not involve:
(a) the registration of the building under the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962 ,
(b) the employment of persons other than those residents,
(c) interference with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products or grit, oil or otherwise,
(d) the display of goods, whether in a window or otherwise,
(e) the exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign (other than a notice, advertisement or sign exhibited on that dwelling-house or dwelling to indicate the name and occupation of the resident), or
(f) the sale of items (whether goods or materials) or the exposure or offer for sale of items, by retail.
"hospital" means a building or place (other than an institution) used for the purpose of providing professional health care services (such as preventative or convalescent care, diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment, care for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric care or counselling and services provided by health care professionals) to people admitted as in-patients (whether or not out-patients are also cared for or treated there), and includes:
(a) ancillary facilities for the accommodation of nurses or other health care workers, ancillary shops or refreshment rooms and ancillary accommodation for persons receiving health care or for their visitors, and
(b) facilities situated in the building or at the place and used for educational or research purposes, whether or not they are used only by hospital staff or health care workers, and whether or not any such use is a commercial use.
"hotel" means the premises to which a hotelier’s licence granted under the Liquor Act 1982 relates.
"housing for aged persons" means residential accommodation, which may take any building form, used permanently as housing for the accommodation of persons aged 55 years or over and which may consist of hostels or a grouping of 2 or more self-contained dwellings, or a combination of both, and which may include one or more of the following facilities provided for use in connection with that accommodation:
(a) accommodation for staff employed or intended to be employed in connection with that accommodation,
(b) medical consulting rooms,
(c) meeting rooms,
(d) recreation facilities,
(e) chapels,
(f) any other facilities for the use or benefit of aged persons.
"industry" means any handicraft or process in or incidental to the making, assembling, altering, repairing, renovating, preparing, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, breaking up or adapting of any goods or any articles or any part of an article for trade, sale or gain, or as ancillary to any business.
"institution" means a penal or reform establishment.
"inter-war flat building" means a building of 2 or more storeys and containing 2 or more dwellings, constructed in the period between 1918 and 1950.
"junk yard" means land used for the collection, storage, abandonment or sale of scrap metals, waste paper, rags, bottles or other scrap materials or goods used for the collecting, dismantling, storage, salvaging or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or for the sale of parts thereof.
"land use map" means the map marked “ Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995-Land Use Map ”, as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows:
Note: The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal or publication on the NSW legislation website. Information about the order of gazettal or publication can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 2)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 3)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 4)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 5)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 6)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 7) (Sheet 1)
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 9)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 15)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 18)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 30)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 37)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 38)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 44)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 46)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 54)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 57)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 60)-Land Use Map
Woollahra Local Environmental Plan 1995 (Amendment No 62)-Land Use Map
"light industry" means an industry, not being an offensive or hazardous industry, in which the processes carried on, the transportation involved or the machinery or materials used do not interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit, oil, or otherwise.
"liquid fuel depot" means a depot or place used for the bulk storage for wholesale distribution of petrol, oil, petroleum or other inflammable liquid.
"main road" means a main road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993 .
"maintenance" in relation to a heritage item, or a building within a heritage conservation area or an inter-war flat building, means the continuous protective care of the fabric of the item and its setting or of the building within the heritage conservation area, or of the inter-war flat building, but in relation to an inter-war flat building, does not include the painting, rendering or similar treatment of external brickwork and other masonry surfaces that are not painted, rendered or similarly treated.
"medical centre" means a building used for the care of (including diagnosis, preventative care or counselling) or for the medical or surgical treatment of out-patients only.
"medical consulting rooms" means a room or a number of rooms forming the whole or part of or attached to a dwelling-house, used for rendering professional medical or health care services (including dental and optical services) to members of the public by not more than three health care professionals at any one time, and where no more than three employees are employed, but does not include a building or part thereof used for the purpose of providing medical or surgical treatment or other professional health care services to people as in-patients.
"mixed development" means one or more dwellings (or a boarding house or serviced apartment) within the same building as, or on the same allotment of land as, shops, commercial premises or any other non-residential use which is not prohibited in the zone.
"motel" means a building or buildings (other than a hotel, boarding house or residential flat building) substantially used for the overnight accommodation of travellers and the vehicles used by them whether or not the building or buildings are also used in the provision of meals to those travellers or the general public.
"motor showroom" means a building or place used for the display or sale of motor vehicles, caravans or boats, whether or not motor vehicle accessories, caravan accessories or boat accessories are sold or displayed therein or thereon.
"nursing home" means a building, or buildings, with associated facilities providing accommodation and care for elderly people in need of nursing aid due to their age or for medical reasons, and which may also provide a temporary respite service for care-givers.
"offensive or hazardous industry" means an industry which, by reason of the processes involved or the method of manufacture or the nature of the materials used or produced, requires isolation from other buildings.
"office" means a building or place used for the purpose of administration, clerical, technical, professional or like activities which do not involve dealing with members of the public on a direct and regular basis or otherwise than by appointment, except where this is a minor activity ancillary to the main purpose for which the building or place is used (but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or a building or place used or intended for use for a purpose elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule).
"operational land" means land classified as operational land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .
"parish centre" means a building or place which is used by a religious organisation to provide community services, and which may include one or more of the following facilities provided for use in connection with those services:
(a) residential accommodation for staff employed or intended to be employed in connection with the provision of those services,
(b) medical consulting rooms,
(c) meeting rooms,
(d) community rooms,
(e) recreation facilities,
(f) therapy rooms.
"place of assembly" means a public hall, theatre, cinema, music hall, concert hall, dance hall, open-air theatre, drive-in theatre, music bowl or any other building of a like character used as such and whether used for the purpose of gain or not, but does not include a place of public worship, an institution or an educational establishment.
"place of public worship" means a church, chapel or other place of public worship or religious instruction or place used for the purpose of religious training.
"potential archaeological site" means a site known to the Council to have archaeological potential even if it is not identified in this plan or shown on the heritage conservation map.
"public building" means a building used as offices or for administrative or other like purposes by the Crown, a statutory body, a council or an organisation established for public purposes.
"public open space" means land used for public recreation purposes and includes public parks, recreation reserves, civic spaces, formal gardens, beaches, public playgrounds and bushland.
"public utility undertaking" means any of the following undertakings carried on or permitted or suffered to be carried on by or by authority of any Government Department or under the authority of or in pursuance of any Commonwealth or State Act:
(a) railway, road transport, water transport, air transport, wharf or river undertakings,
(b) undertakings for the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas or the provision of sewerage or drainage services,
and a reference to a person carrying on a public utility undertaking shall be construed as including a reference to a council, county council, Government Department, corporation, firm or authority carrying on the undertaking.
"recreation area" means:
(a) children’s playground, or
(b) parks and gardens, or
(c) an area used for sporting activities or sporting facilities, or
(d) an area used to provide recreation facilities which promote the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community, being facilities provided by:
(i) the Council, or
(ii) a body of persons associated for the purpose of the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community,
but does not include marinas, racecourses and showgrounds.
"recreation establishment" means health farms, religious retreat houses, rest homes, youth camps and the like but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or a building or place used or intended for use for a purpose elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule.
"recreation facility" means a building or place used for indoor recreation, such as a table tennis centre, squash court, swimming pool, gymnasium, health studio, bowling alley or any other building or place of a like character used for recreation whether or not operated for profit or gain, but does not include a place of assembly or an amusement centre.
"relic" means any deposit, object or material evidence relating to:
(a) the use or settlement of the area of Woollahra, not being Aboriginal habitation, which is more than 50 years old, or
(b) Aboriginal habitation of the area of Woollahra commencing before or continuing after its occupation by persons of European extraction, including human remains.
"residential flat building" means a building containing two or more dwellings, but does not include a building specifically defined elsewhere in this Schedule.
"restaurant" means a building or place the principal purpose of which is the provision of food or beverages (or both) to people for consumption on the premises and that may also provide takeaway meals and beverages.
"retail plant nursery" means a building or place used for both the growing and retail selling of plants, whether or not ancillary products are sold there.
"road transport terminal" means a building or place used for the principal purpose of the bulk handling of goods for transport by road, including facilities for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to transport those goods and for the parking, servicing and repair of those vehicles.
"RTA" means the Roads and Traffic Authority constituted under the Transport Administration Act 1988 .
"sea wall" means a structure placed partially or wholly along the land/water interface to protect the land from the sea or to stop accelerated erosion of the shoreline, but does not include a breakwater.
"serviced apartments" means a building containing two or more dwellings intended to be used for short term accommodation of travellers and tourists and where such dwellings are cleaned or otherwise serviced or maintained by the owner or manager of the apartments or the owner’s or manager’s agent, but does not include a building used as backpackers’ accommodation or a building specifically defined elsewhere in this Schedule.
"service station" means a building or place used for the fuelling of motor vehicles involving the sale by retail of petrol, oil and other petroleum products, whether or not the building or place is also used for any one or more of the following purposes:
(a) the sale by retail of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles,
(b) washing and greasing of motor vehicles,
(c) installation of accessories,
(d) repairing and servicing of motor vehicles involving the use of hand tools (other than repairing and servicing which involves top overhaul of motors, body building, panel beating, spray painting, or suspension, transmission or chassis restoration).
"shop" means a building or place used for the purpose of selling, exposing or offering for sale by retail, goods, merchandise or materials, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule, or a building or place used for a purpose elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule.
"site area" means the area of land to which an application for consent under the Act relates, including any land on which the development to which the application relates is permitted by or under this plan, other than any long narrow corridor or accessway in the case of hatchet shaped or irregular allotments or land which was below the line of maximum tidal reach as at 15 December 1972 or at a date determined by the Council.
"skid" means an inclined ramp used for the manual launching of small craft but does not include a slipway.
"slipway" means a structure, usually in the form of two supported parallel rails on which a wheeled cradle is run, used to draw a vessel out of the water for maintenance and repair.
"storey" means any separate level within a building (not including levels below existing ground level provided for car parking or storage, or both, that protrude less than 1.2m above existing ground level, or an attic level), where the number of storeys that a building contains is the maximum number of storeys of a building which may be intersected by the same vertical line, not being a line which passes through any wall of the building.
"the Act" means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .
"the Corporation" means the Corporation constituted by section 8 (1) of the Act.
"tourist facilities" means an establishment providing for holiday accommodation or recreation and may include a boat shed, boat landing facilities, camping ground, caravan park, holiday cabins, hotel, house boat, marina, motel, playground, refreshment room, water sport facilities or a club used in conjunction with any such activities.
"transport terminal" means a building or place used as an airline terminal, a road transport terminal, a bus station or a bus depot.
"utility installation" means a building or work used by a public utility undertaking, but does not include a building designed wholly or principally as administrative or business premises or as a showroom.
"warehouse" means a building or place used for the storage of goods, merchandise or materials pending their sale and distribution to persons engaged in the retail trade.
"welfare and charitable services" means a place used as offices or for administration or other like purposes by a charitable or benevolent body or institution.


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