New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY (EXEMPT AND COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CODES) 2008 - REG 5A.7

5A.7 Maximum gross floor area

(1) If the development is a new building, the total gross floor area of the completed buildings on the site must not be more than 20,000m 2.

(2) If the development is an alteration or addition to an existing building, the total gross floor area of the building as altered or added to must not exceed--

(a) for an existing building with a gross floor area of 5,000m 2 or less--5,000m 2, or

(b) in any other case--the gross floor area of the existing building with an additional 5,000m 2.

(3) If the development includes development for the purposes of an ancillary office or industrial retail outlet, the floor area of the ancillary office or industrial retail outlet must not be more than 20% of the total gross floor area of the completed building or 1,000m 2, whichever is the lesser.

Note : Clause 1.18(1)(b) requires the new use to be permissible, with consent, in the land use zone in which it is carried out. In addition, certain types of uses are subject to a maximum floor area to be permissible development in a particular zone under the relevant planning instrument, such as in clause 5.4 of the Standard Instrument. In those cases, the maximum floor area requirement for that use must be complied with for a change of use to be complying development.