16632 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Planning, Act Alliance, Environmental Impact Statement
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Overview: various categories, what constitutes development, the approval process for different development categories, how local approval authorities assess development applications (das, lodging das what happens next, complying & exempt development. Learning outcomes: understand the scope of development" under the environmental planning and. Assessment act, 1979 (ep&a act: distinguish between different classes of development and their various approval. What is development": defined in s. 4 of the epa act to include: the use of land, the subdivision of land, the erection of a building, the carrying out of work, and the demolition of a building or works. Any other thing controlled by an environmental planning instrument (s. 26 of the ep&a act) A use of only limited duration is not excluded just because it is transient or short term: subdivision of land". Land" includes a building erected on land, so subdivision includes strata subdivision of a building. Something that is done to land is not a building or structure.
