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STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING POLICY (HOUSING FOR SENIORS OR PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY) 2004

- Made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
- As at 29 July 2020
- Reg 143 of 2004

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Policy
   2.      Aims of Policy
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Land to which Policy applies
   4A.     Land to which Policy applies--heritage conservation areas in Greater Sydney Region
   4B.     Land to which Policy applies--metropolitan rural areas in Greater Sydney Region
   5.      Relationship to other environmental planning instruments
   6.      Transitional provisions relating to certain development applications and development
   7.      Suspension of certain agreements and covenants

CHAPTER 2 - KEY CONCEPTS

   8.      Seniors
   9.      People with a disability
   10.     Seniors housing
   11.     Residential care facilities
   12.     Hostels
   13.     Self-contained dwellings

CHAPTER 3 - DEVELOPMENT FOR SENIORS HOUSING

   PART 1 - GENERAL

   14.     Objective of Chapter
   15.     What Chapter does
   16.     Development consent required
   17.     Development on land adjoining land zoned primarily for urban purposes
   18.     Restrictions on occupation of seniors housing allowed under this Chapter
   19.     Use of seniors housing in commercial zones
   20.     (Repealed)
   21.     Subdivision
   22.     Fire sprinkler systems in residential care facilities for seniors
   23.     Development on land used for the purposes of an existing registered club

   PART 1A - SITE COMPATIBILITY CERTIFICATES

   24.     Site compatibility certificates required for certain development applications
   25.     Application for site compatibility certificate

   PART 2 - SITE-RELATED REQUIREMENTS
   Note

   26.     Location and access to facilities
   27.     Bush fire prone land
   28.     Water and sewer
   29.     Consent authority to consider certain site compatibility criteria for development applications to which clause 24 does not apply

   PART 3 - DESIGN REQUIREMENTS

           Division 1 - General

   30.     Site analysis
   31.     Design of in-fill self-care housing
   32.     Design of residential development

           Division 2 - Design principles

   33.     Neighbourhood amenity and streetscape
   34.     Visual and acoustic privacy
   35.     Solar access and design for climate
   36.     Stormwater
   37.     Crime prevention
   38.     Accessibility
   39.     Waste management

   PART 4 - DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS TO BE COMPLIED WITH

           Division 1 - General

   40.     Development standards--minimum sizes and building height

           Division 2 - Residential care facilities--standards concerning accessibility and useability
           Note

           Division 3 - Hostels and self-contained dwellings--standards concerning accessibility and useability

   41.     Standards for hostels and self-contained dwellings

   PART 5 - DEVELOPMENT ON LAND ADJOINING LAND ZONED PRIMARILY FOR URBAN PURPOSES

   42.     Serviced self-care housing
   43.     Transport services to local centres
   44.     Availability of facilities and services

   PART 6 - DEVELOPMENT FOR VERTICAL VILLAGES

   45.     Vertical villages

   PART 7 - DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT CANNOT BE USED AS GROUNDS TO REFUSE CONSENT

           Division 1 - General

   46.     Inter-relationship of Part with design principles in Part 3
   47.     Part does not apply to certain development applications relating to heritage affected land

           Division 2 - Residential care facilities

   48.     Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for residential care facilities

           Division 3 - Hostels

   49.     Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for hostels

           Division 4 - Self-contained dwellings

   50.     Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for self-contained dwellings

CHAPTER 4 - MISCELLANEOUS

   51.     Amendments to the bush fire evacuation risk map
   52.     Savings for development applications made before SEPP (Seniors Living) 2004 (Amendment No 1)
   53.     Savings and transitional provisions for development applications made before SEPP (Seniors Living) 2004 (Amendment No 2)
   54.     Savings and transitional provisions--site compatibility amendments
   54A.    Savings and transitional provisions--State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing for Seniors or People with a Disability) Amendment 2018
   54B.    Savings provision--bush fire prone land
   55.     Residential care facilities for seniors required to have fire sprinkler systems
           SCHEDULE 1
           Schedule 2 (Repealed)
           SCHEDULE 3


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