New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

WILLOUGHBY LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1995 - REG 42

42 Industrial areas

The following industrial zones apply as identified on the map:

Zone 4 (a) (General Industrial Zone)-coloured purple

Zone 4 (b) (Light Industrial Zone)-coloured purple with red edging and lettered “4 (b)”

Zone 4 (c) (Industrial Park Zone)-coloured purple with red edging and lettered “4 (c)”

Development control table

In this Plan:
"complying development" means development that may be carried out with development consent, in the form of a complying development certificate, obtained from either Council or an Accredited Certifier. Development is only complying development if it is specified as being permissible within subclause (2) (b) of the development control table for the zone or is ancillary to an existing legal use and will be contained wholly within the property. It must also comply with the criteria and development standards specified in Schedule 5 to the Willoughby DCP.

Industrial areas

General Objectives

(a) To identify and preserve core service industrial lands to meet the current and future needs of the City of Willoughby and the wider region, and

(b) To accommodate industrial development that produces a range of goods and services and provides employment, without adversely affecting the amenity, health or safety of nearby residents in adjacent areas, and

(c) To enable industrial development that does not pollute or adversely affect adjoining land, air or water, and

(d) To allow only those shops and services that serve the daily convenience needs of workers employed in the industrial areas, and

(e) To protect the viability of business zones in the City of Willoughby by enabling development for the purposes of offices or showrooms only where they are ancillary to and used in conjunction with industrial, manufacturing, warehousing or other permitted uses on the same land, and

(f) To accommodate uses that, because of demonstrated special building or site requirements or operational characteristics, cannot be or are inappropriate to be located in other zones, and

Such requirements or characteristics may include the following:

(i) commercial vehicle access,

(ii) loading bays and docks,

(iii) high floor to ceiling requirements for activities such as truck access, the storage of goods or the containment of machinery or equipment,

(iv) requirements for special fittings and features (such as those required in laboratories and research facilities) that are not normally associated with an office use,

(v) requirements for open space storage or assembly or manufacturing space,

(vi) an employee to floor space ratio that is lower than that which would ordinarily be associated with an office use.

(g) To prohibit development if it is inappropriate in an industrial zone and can be located in established residential or business zones, such as residential and retail development and offices that are not ancillary to an industrial use, and

(h) To improve the environmental quality of the City of Willoughby by ensuring that industries conform to environmental and hazard reduction guidelines.