NSW Government Housing Reforms | Central Coast Council

The NSW State Government have embarked upon a gaggle of planning reforms to deal with the State’s present housing points. Further element may be discovered on the Department of Planning Housing and Infrastructure’s Housing Page.

Housing SEPP

Council’s Local Environmental Plan (LEP) and Development Control Plan should be learn along side related State Government Policies corresponding to State Environmental Planning Policies (SEPPs). In sure occasion the provisions of a SEPP will override the LEP controls.

State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021 (the Housing SEPP) contains the planning provisions for:

• boarding homes
• build-to-rent housing
• seniors housing
• caravan parks and manufactured house estates
• group houses
• retention of present reasonably priced rental housing
• secondary dwellings (granny flats)
• social and reasonably priced housing
• short-term rental lodging
• design high quality of residential condo growth.

The Housing SEPP now contains provisions regarding the Transport Oriented Development Program and the Low and Mid-Rise Housing Policy.

Transit oriented growth

Housing SEPP – Chapter 5 -Transit Oriented Development applies to sure land at Wyong/Tuggerah, Gosford and Woy Woy. The land to which these controls apply may be considered via the NSW Planning Portal Digital EPI Viewer – SEPP (Housing) 2021 map and by opening the ‘Transit Oriented Development Sites’ Map.

Chapter 5 of the Housing SEPP is to be learn along side Central Coast LEP 2022 and the associated mapping for the LEP.

Low and mid-rise housing

Housing SEPP – Chapter 6 – Low and mid-rise housing applies to sure land at Wyong, Tuggerah, The Entrance, Erina, Green Point, Gosford and Woy Woy. The land to which these controls apply may be considered via the NSW Planning Portal Digital EPI Viewer – SEPP (Housing) 2021 map and by opening the ‘Town Centres Map’. Note: This mapping doesn’t point out the space from these centres that these provisions apply.

The Department of Planning Housing and Infrastructure have produced an Indicative Map that will present steerage as to the place these provisions might apply. This Indicative Map is to not be relied on to ascertain whether or not these planning provisions apply to land. This is to be established by the proponent in session with Council. 

Chapter 6 of the Housing SEPP is to be learn along side Central Coast LEP 2022 and the associated mapping for the LEP.

Codes SEPP – Housing Provisions

State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008, or Codes SEPP comprises a gaggle of streamline the planning course of for sure growth or works.

• Exempt Development is minor growth which lead to a minor impression on the setting (e.g. fencing, small shed or low top panorama wall). It does require formal approval however should meet sure set requirements and be proposed on land that isn’t recognized as being constrained
• Complying Development is growth that’s thought of to have a minor environmental impression on neighbourhood amenity which may be addressed by predetermined growth requirements. Council, or a personal accredited certifier, can grant a Complying Development Certificate.

There are a variety of various Codes inside the SEPP, a few of which can be utilized to expedite the method of residential growth, on sure land that has restricted constraints. This contains the:

• Housing Code
• Rural Housing Code
• Greenfield Housing Code.

More lately the Codes SEPP was expanded to incorporate an approval course of for growth proposals for a number of dwellings corresponding to twin occupancies, manor houses and terrace housing. The controls and the circumstances below which they are often utilized may be discovered inside:

Further info may be discovered on the Department’s Low Rise Housing Diversity Code webpage and the NSW Housing Pattern Book Webpage.