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This legislation has been repealed.

QUEANBEYAN LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1998 - SCHEDULE 1

SCHEDULE 1 – Dictionary

(Clause 5 (1))


"A frame sign" means a moveable stand that displays an advertisement in front of a site on a public footway which--

(a) is not more than 1.2 metres in height or 750 millimetres in width, and
(b) displays an advertisement with wording that does no more than describe the place or premises comprising or situated on the site or a person residing or carrying out an occupation there or describe or depict an occupation being carried out there or give directions, cautions or notifications, or particulars relating to goods, commodities, services, activities, trades, professions or other businesses dealt with or provided at the place or premises.

"Aboriginal object" means any deposit, object or other material evidence (not being a handicraft made for sale) relating to the Aboriginal habitation of an area of New South Wales, being habitation before or concurrent with (or both) the occupation of that area by persons of non-Aboriginal extraction, and includes Aboriginal remains.

"adjoining land" means land which abuts other land or is separated from it only by a pathway, driveway or similar thoroughfare.

"advertised development" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"advertisement" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"advertising structure" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"agriculture" means the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, including the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees, and for the growing of crops, fruit or vegetables and includes horticulture and the like.

"amusement centre" means a building or place used mainly for the purpose of playing--
(a) billiards, pool or similar games, or
(b) electrically or mechanically operated amusement devices such as pinball machines and the like, but only if more than 3 such machines are installed in the building or place.

"ANEF contour" means the noise exposure contour shown as an ANEF contour on a plan of Canberra (Fairbairn) Airport or surrounding land prepared by an appropriate Commonwealth public authority or private lessor of the Airport.

"animal establishment" means a building or place used intensively for the purpose of animal husbandry or the boarding, training or keeping of animals, birds, fish, crustaceans, insects, reptiles or the like.

"appointed day" means the day on which this plan took effect.

"archaeological site" means the site (as shown on the Heritage Map and listed in Schedule 4) of one or more relics.

"area of an advertisement" in the form of a sign means--
(a) for a sign with only one side occupied by the matter displayed, the area within the outline of that sign, or
(b) for a sign with two sides occupied by the matter displayed, the area within the outline of that sign or, where one side is larger than the other, the area within the outline of the larger side, or
(c) for any other sign, one-third of the total surface area of the sign.

"arterial road" means--
(a) a road shown on the map as such, or
(b) a classified road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993 .

"arts and crafts gallery" means a building used for the creation, display or sale of arts and crafts, or materials of an artistic or historical nature.

"Australian noise exposure forecast (ANEF)" for land means a value allocated to the land on an index used for predicting the cumulative exposure to aircraft noise in communities near airports during a specified time period.

"automotive use" means the use of a building or work or land for the purpose of fuelling, lubricating, cleaning, caring for, maintaining or repairing motor vehicles or of offering for sale and installing automotive accessories or parts and includes the use of an automotive workshop, a shop selling automotive spare parts, tyres or car batteries, a tyre retreading workshop and any other establishment performing similar functions including a car repair station, but does not include the use of a panel beating workshop (other than a place used for minor panel beating ancillary to a motor showroom) or a service station.

"balcony" means an open or covered elevated horizontal platform attached to the upper floor of a building, projecting or recessed into the face of the wall, accessible from an adjacent room, and protected by a railing or balustrade.

"barbecue" means an outdoor facility, located in a backyard or courtyard, for domestic cooking.

"bed and breakfast" means the provision of accommodation and meals for commercial purposes within a dwelling-house--
(a) by the permanent residents of the dwelling-house, and
(b) on a short term basis,
where not more than 10 people occupy the dwelling-house, including the permanent residents.

"boarding house" means a building or place--
(a) where accommodation and meals are provided, for payment, to the residents of the building or place, and
(b) which is not licensed to sell liquor within the meaning of the Liquor Act 1982 ,
but does not include a dwelling-house used to provide bed and breakfast, a motel or a serviced apartment.

"brothel" means premises habitually used for the purpose of prostitution. Premises may constitute a brothel even though used by only one prostitute for the purposes of prostitution.

"Building Code of Australia" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"building envelope" means the part of a site either occupied or proposed to be occupied by a dwelling.

"building line" or
"boundary setback" means a line drawn parallel to any property boundary of an allotment.

"bulky goods salesroom or showroom" means a building or place used for the sale (by retail or auction), hire or display of items (whether goods or materials) which are of such a size, shape or weight as to require--
(a) a large area for handling, storage or display, or
(b) direct vehicular access to the site of the building or place by members of the public for the purpose of loading items into their vehicles after purchase (for example a building or place used for the sale or display of automotive equipment and spares, floor coverings, tiles and paving, garden equipment and furniture, hardware, household fittings and furniture, plants, swimming pools and spas and whitegoods),
but does not include a building or place used for the sale of foodstuffs or clothing or, where the term is used in the general development controls, a building or place defined elsewhere in this Schedule.

"bus depot" means a building or place used for the servicing, repair and garaging of buses and other vehicles used for the purposes of a bus transport undertaking.

"bushfire hazard reduction" means a reduction (by controlled burning or mechanical or manual means) of material that constitutes a bushfire hazard.

"business identification sign" means a sign--
(a) that indicates--
(i) the name of the person, and
(ii) the business carried on by the person,
at the premises or place at which the sign is displayed, and
(b) that may include the address of the premises or place and a logo or other symbol that identifies the business,
but that does not include any advertising relating to a person who does not carry on business at the premises or place.

"bus station" means a building or place used as a terminal for the assembly and dispersal of passengers travelling by bus.

"car park" means a building or place used for parking vehicles and any associated manoeuvring space and access, whether operated for gain or not.

"caravan park" means land (such as a camping ground) on which caravans (or caravans and other moveable dwellings) are, or are to be, placed or erected.

"carport" means a roofed, open or semi-enclosed structure for the sheltering of motor vehicles, attached to, adjacent to, or near a dwelling-house.

"cemetery" means a building or place used for the disposal or processing of dead human beings or animals, and includes a crematorium and burial ground.

"child care centre" means a building or place which is used (whether or not for profit) for the purpose of educating, minding or caring for children (whether or not any of the children are related to the owner or operator), but only if the following conditions are satisfied--
(a) the children number 6 or more, are under 6 years of age, and do not attend a government school, or a registered non-government school, within the meaning of the Education Reform Act 1990 , and
(b) the building or place does not provide residential care for any of the children (other than those related to the owner or operator).

"cladding" means the outer non-load bearing covering of external walls or roof of a framed building or structure, applied for weather-proofing or decorative purposes or both.

"club" means a building used by persons associated, or by a body incorporated, for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic, recreational or other lawful purposes, whether or not the whole or part of such building is the premises of a club registered under the Registered Clubs Act 1976 .

"cluster housing" means a group of more than two dwellings having communal open space and other shared facilities on a single allotment of land, detached or attached in groups of two.

"commercial premises" means a building or place used as an office or for other business or commercial purposes, but (in the general development controls) does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this Schedule.

"community facility" means a building or place owned or controlled by a public authority, including the Council or a body of persons which may provide for the physical, social, cultural or intellectual development or welfare of the local community, but (in the general development controls) does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this Schedule.

"community land" means public land classified or reclassified as community land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .

"complying development" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"contaminate" has the same meaning as it has in the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 .

"contamination" has the same meaning as it has in the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 .

"convenience store" means a shop with a gross floor area of not more than 240 square metres selling a variety of small consumer goods, whether or not other goods are available for sale or hire at the shop.

"Council" means the Council of the City of Queanbeyan.

"curtilage" , in relation to a heritage item or conservation area, means the area of land (including land covered by water) surrounding a heritage item, a heritage conservation area, or building, work or place within a heritage conservation area, which contributes to its heritage significance.

"demolish" , in relation to a heritage item, or a building, work, relic or tree within a heritage conservation area, means wholly or partly destroy, dismantle or deface the heritage item or the building, work, relic or tree.

"demolition" in relation to a building or work, means the damaging, defacing, destruction, pulling down or removal of the building or work, in whole or in part.

"depot" means a building or place used for the storage or repair (but not sale) of plant, machinery, goods or materials used or intended to be used by the owner or occupier of the building or place, but (in the general development controls) does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this Schedule.

"development" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"driveway" means a defined area within a property used by vehicles travelling between a carriageway and a property adjacent to or near a road.

"dual occupancy housing" means housing consisting of 2 dwellings only (whether or not attached) on one allotment of land.

"dwelling" means a room or suite of rooms occupied or used or so constructed or adapted as to be capable of being occupied or used as a separate domicile.

"dwelling-house" means a dwelling which is the only dwelling erected on an allotment of land.

"ecologically sustainable development" means development which uses, conserves and enhances the community's resources so that ecological processes, on which life depends, are maintained, and the total quality of life, now and in the future, can be increased.

"educational establishment" means a building or place used for education (including teaching) and includes--
(a) a school, and
(b) a tertiary institution, being a university, a TAFE college (within the meaning of the Technical and Further Education Commission Act 1990 ), teachers college, technical college or other tertiary college providing formal education which is constituted by or under an Act, and
(c) an art gallery or museum that is not used to sell the items displayed in it,
whether or not accommodation for staff or students, or both, is provided and whether or not used for the purpose of gain.

"environment" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"entertainment facility" means a building or place used for the purpose of sport, entertainment, exhibitions or displays, and includes--
(a) a sports stadium, showgrounds, race courses and the like, and
(b) theatres, cinemas, music halls, open air theatres, drive-in theatres and the like.

"excavation" or
"filling" means works which alter the ground level.

"exempt development" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"exhibition home" means a dwelling-house or dwelling used temporarily for display purposes.

"extractive industry" means--
(a) a land use involving the winning or removal of extractive material from land, or
(b) an industry or undertaking (other than a mine) which depends for its operation on the winning or removal of extractive material from the land on which it is carried on.

"extractive material" means a substance such as sand, soil, gravel, clay, turf, rock or stone, but does not include coal, shale, petrol, uranium or any mineral within the meaning of the Mining Act 1992 .

"fast food take-away restaurant" means a building or place (including a take-away restaurant, drive-in take-away restaurant or the like) where food or drink is prepared or offered for sale, whether or not the food or drink is consumed in that building or place or elsewhere, but, where the term is used in the general development controls, does not include a building or place specifically defined elsewhere in this Schedule.

"flood prone land" means land that would be inundated by the 1 in 100 year flood as shown on the map.

"floodway" means land, whether or not aligned with obvious naturally defined channels, over which there is a significant passage of water during flood events.

"floor" means the space within a building between one floor level and the floor level next above or, if there is no floor above, the ceiling or roof above.

"floor space ratio" of a site means the ratio of the gross floor area of any building or buildings on the site to the area of the site.

"garden shed" means a small building, usually of metal or timber construction, for the storage of garden implements and the like.

"greenhouse effect" means the extra warming of the earth due to absorption of the earth's emitted infra-red radiation by greenhouse gases.

"greenhouse gases" means the following gases: carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, methane, nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone and any other compounds or component the breakdown of which could form any of those gases and lead to ozone depletion.

"gross floor area" means the sum of the areas of each floor of a building, where the area of each floor is taken to be the area within the outer face of the external enclosing walls as measured at a height of 1,400 millimetres above each floor level, excluding--
(a) columns, fin walls, sun control devices and any elements, projections or works outside the general lines of the outer face of the external wall, and
(b) lift towers, cooling towers, machinery and plant rooms and ancillary storage space and vertical air-conditioning ducts, and
(c) carparking needed to meet any requirements of the Council and any internal access to it, and
(d) space for the loading and unloading of goods.

"ground level" means the level of a site prior to any development, including any excavation, filling or grading, that has taken place and, where the ground level has been altered after the appointed day, the ground level is taken to be that level of the site as determined by the Council.

"group home" means a permanent group home or a transitional group home.

"hazardous industry" means a development for the purposes of an industry which, when the development is in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed, would pose a significant risk, in relation to the locality--
(a) to human health, life or property, or
(b) to the biophysical environment.

"health consulting rooms" means the use in a dwelling-house in a residential area of not more than 2 rooms as surgeries by members of a profession providing health care services.

"height" means the greatest distance measured vertically from any point of a building, including its roof, to the ground level below that point.

"helipad" means an area or place not open to the public use which is authorised by the Commonwealth Department of Transport and which is set apart for the taking off and landing of helicopters.

"heritage conservation area" means--
(a) an area of land that is shown as a heritage conservation area on the Heritage Map (including any heritage items situated on or within that conservation area), or
(b) a place of Aboriginal heritage significance shown on the Heritage Map.

"heritage conservation management plan" means a document prepared in accordance with guidelines prepared by the Department of Planning that documents the heritage significance of an item, place or heritage conservation area and identifies conservation policies and management mechanisms that are appropriate to enable that significance to be retained.

"heritage impact statement" means a document consisting of--
(a) a statement demonstrating the heritage significance of a heritage item, archaeological site, place of Aboriginal heritage significance or other heritage conservation area, and
(b) an assessment of the impact that proposed development will have on that significance, and
(c) proposals for measures to minimise that impact.

"heritage item" means a building, work, archaeological site, tree, place or Aboriginal object specified in an inventory of heritage items that is available at the office of the Council and the site and nature of which is described in Schedule 4 (and shown on the Heritage Map).

"Heritage Map" means the Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 Heritage Map , as amended by the maps marked as follows--
Editorial note : The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 47)

"heritage significance" means historical, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic value.

"high technology industry" means an enterprise which has as its primary function the manufacture, development, production, processing or assembly of, or research into, any of the following--
(a) electronic and micro-electronic systems, goods and components,
(b) computer software and hardware,
(c) instrumentation and instruments,
(d) biological, pharmaceutical, medical or paramedical systems, goods and components, and
(e) other goods, systems and components intended for use in science, technology or industry.

"home activity" means any activity or pursuit carried out in a room or a number of rooms forming part of, or within the curtilage of, a dwelling-house on an allotment, or in another building for which consent has been granted situated on the allotment, where--
(a) only goods made or produced, or services offered, as a result of the activity or pursuit are displayed, sold or provided, and
(b) the primary use of the building is residential, and
(c) the carrying out of the activity or pursuit--
(i) does not interfere with the amenity of the locality by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit or oil or otherwise, and
(ii) is not visible from any public place, and
(iii) does not require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality, and
(iv) does not generate traffic out of keeping with the surrounding area, and
(v) does not involve the employment of more than one person other than the permanent residents of the dwelling-house, and
(vi) does not involve the exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign other than a notice or sign exhibited on the dwelling-house, or on land on which the dwelling-house is erected, to indicate the names and occupation of the permanent residents of the dwelling-house, and
(vii) does not involve a change in the appearance of the dwelling-house, or the land on which the dwelling-house is erected, that is, in the opinion of the Council, out of character with the appearance of the adjoining area, and
(viii) does not involve prostitution, and
(d) the gross floor area where the activity or pursuit is carried out does not exceed 50 square metres, and
(e) provision is made for the parking of all visiting customers' or clients' vehicles, in accordance with the Council's requirements, behind the building line or in a suitably screened area within the allotment boundary, and
(f) any retail sales are ancillary to the home activity, and
(g) the activity or pursuit is carried out by at least one of the permanent residents of the dwelling-house.

"home based child minding service" means any service--
(a) that is provided by a person for the purpose of educating, minding or caring for (but without providing residential care for) not more than 5 children under the age of 15 (excluding those children normally residing within the dwelling), and
(b) that is provided with or without fee, gain or reward at the premises where the person providing the service resides, and
(c) that is required to be licensed under the Children (Care and Protection) Act 1987 .

"home occupation" means any occupation or pursuit carried out in a room or a number of rooms forming part of, or within the curtilage of, a dwelling-house on an allotment, or in another building for which consent has been granted situated on the same allotment as a dwelling-house, where--
(a) only goods made or produced, or services offered, as a result of the occupation or pursuit are displayed, sold or provided, and
(b) the primary use of the dwelling is residential, and
(c) the gross floor area where the occupation or pursuit is carried out does not exceed 30 square metres, and
(d) the occupation or pursuit does not--
(i) interfere with the amenity of the locality by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit or oil, or otherwise, or
(ii) involve exposure to view from any public place of any matter, or
(iii) require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality, or
(iv) involve the exhibition of an advertising structure and the display of an advertisement on it or an advertisement that is not an advertising structure other than as exempt development, or
(v) involve a change in the appearance of the dwelling-house, or the land on which the dwelling-house is erected, that is, in the opinion of the Council, out of character with the appearance of the adjoining area, or
(vi) involve prostitution, and
(e) any retail sales are ancillary to the occupation or pursuit, and
(f) the occupation or pursuit is carried out by at least one of the permanent residents of the dwelling-house.

"hospital" means a building or place used for the purpose of providing professional health services to people admitted as in-patients, whether or not out-patients are also cared for or treated at the building or place, and includes--
(a) ancillary facilities for the accommodation of nurses or other health care workers, ancillary convenience shops and ancillary accommodation for persons receiving health care or their visitors, and
(b) facilities situated in the building or at the place and used for educational or research purposes, whether or not they are used only by hospital staff or health care workers, and whether or not any such use is a commercial use.

"hostel" means a hostel housing aged persons or disabled persons where cooking and dining, laundering, cleaning and other facilities are provided on a shared basis and where a person having nursing or social work experience or other similar experience provides services for and maintains the residence on a full-time basis.

"hotel" means the premises to which a hotelier's licence granted under the Liquor Act 1982 relates, but does not include a tavern.

"housing for aged or disabled persons" means residential accommodation which may take any building form, which is or is intended to be used permanently as housing for the accommodation of aged persons or disabled persons and which may consist of hostels or a grouping of 2 or more self-contained dwellings, or a combination of both, and which includes 1 or more of the following facilities provided for use in connection with that accommodation--
(a) accommodation for staff employed in connection with that accommodation,
(b) chapels,
(c) medical consulting rooms,
(d) meeting rooms,
(e) recreational facilities,
(f) shops,
(g) therapy rooms,
(h) any other facilities for the use or benefit of aged persons or disabled persons.

"industry" means--
(a) any manufacturing process within the meaning of the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962 , or
(b) the breaking up or dismantling of any goods or any article for trade or sale or gain or as development ancillary to carrying on any business.

"institution" means a penal or reformative establishment.

"integrated housing" means--
(a) the subdivision of land into 5 or more allotments, each with an area of not less than 450 square metres, and
(b) the erection of a dwelling-house on each of the allotments created by that subdivision, each of which may have a "zero side boundary setback" nominated by the Council which allows an external wall to be built up to that boundary.

"land" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"landscaped area" means the part of an allotment not occupied by a building or used or proposed to be used for driveways, parking areas or drying yards and which is predominantly planted with trees, shrubs, grasses and the like.

"laundromat" means a place or building containing coin operated washing machines, spin dryers and hot air dryers available for public use.

"light industry" means an industry in which the processes carried on, or the transportation involved or the machinery or materials used, does not interfere unreasonably with the amenity of the neighbourhood.

"local heritage significance" , in relation to a place, building, work, archaeological site, tree or precinct, means its heritage significance to an area.

"maintenance" , in relation to a heritage item or a building, work, archaeological site, tree or place within a heritage conservation area, means ongoing protective care. It does not include the removal or disturbance of existing fabric, alterations, such as carrying out extensions or additions, or the introduction of new materials or technology.

"manufactured home" means a self-contained dwelling (that is, a dwelling that includes at least one kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living area and that also includes toilet and laundry facilities), being a dwelling--
(a) that comprises one or more major sections, and
(b) that is not capable of being registered under the Traffic Act 1909 ,
and includes any associated structures that form part of the dwelling.

"manufactured home estate" means land on which manufactured homes are, or are to be, erected.

"materials recycling yard" means a building or place used for collecting, dismantling, storing, abandoning or recycling of second-hand or scrap materials for the purpose of resale.

"medical centre" means a building or place used for the purpose of providing professional health services (including preventative care, diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment or counselling) to out-patients only.

"mine" means a place which depends for its operation on the winning or removal of any material to which the Mining Act 1992 or the Petroleum (Onshore) Act 1991 applies, and includes a place used for the storage and primary processing of the material obtained.

"mixed use building" means a building (other than a residential flat building) containing commercial or retail uses on the ground floor and which contains fewer than four self-contained dwellings on the floor or floors above the ground floor.

"motel" means premises, not being a hotel, dwelling-house providing bed and breakfast, boarding house or serviced apartment, used for the temporary or short-term accommodation of travellers and which may include an ancillary restaurant.

"motor showroom" means a building or place used or intended for use for the display or sale of motor vehicles and accessories, including boats, caravans and trailers.

"moveable dwelling" means--
(a) any tent, or any caravan or other van or other portable device (whether on wheels or not), used for human habitation, or
(b) a manufactured home, or
(c) any conveyance, structure or thing of a class or description prescribed by the regulations under the Local Government Act 1993 for the purposes of the definition of
"moveable dwelling" in that Act.

"multi-dwelling housing" means a group of two or more dwellings, not being a residential flat building, and may include cluster housing, integrated housing, terraces, townhouses, villas and the like.

"native vegetation" has the same meaning as it has in the Native Vegetation Conservation Act 1997 .

"natural areas" means those areas of the City of Queanbeyan retaining predominantly endemic native vegetation and providing habitat or corridor functions (or both) for native flora and fauna species.

"natural values" means the individual endemic components or groups of endemic components that together make a natural area.

"offensive industry" means a development for the purposes of an industry which, when the development is in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed, would emit a polluting discharge in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development of other land in the locality.

"offensive storage establishment" means any establishment where goods, materials or products are stored which, when in operation and when all measures proposed to reduce or minimise its impact on the locality have been employed, would emit a polluting discharge in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land in the locality.

"operational land" means public land classified or reclassified as operational land within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 .

"paintball establishment" means a building or place used for the purpose of providing facilities for recreational field games such as paintball, skirmish or the like.

"panel beating workshop" means a building or place used for the purpose of carrying out repairs to motor vehicles and agricultural machinery, where the work involved includes--
(a) body building, and
(b) panel beating (which may or may not involve dismantling), and
(c) spray painting.

"parking space" means a defined and unobstructed area accessible to and, in the opinion of the Council, suitable for the parking of motor vehicles.

"permanent group home" means a dwelling--
(a) used to provide a household environment for disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons, whether those persons are related or not, and
(b) occupied by the persons referred to in paragraph (a) as a single household, either with or without paid or unpaid supervision or care and with or without payment for board and lodging being required,
but does not include a building to which State Environmental Planning Policy No 5--Housing for Older People or People with a Disability applies or a transitional group home.

"place of Aboriginal heritage significance" means an area of land shown on the Heritage Map that is--
(a) the site of one or more Aboriginal objects or a place that has the physical remains of pre-European occupation by, or is of contemporary significance to, the Aboriginal people. It can (but need not) include items and remnants of the occupation of the land by Aboriginal people, such as burial places, engraving sites, rock art, midden deposits, scarred and sacred trees and sharpening grooves, or
(b) a natural Aboriginal sacred site or other sacred feature. It includes natural features such as creeks or mountains of long-standing cultural significance, as well as initiation, ceremonial or story places or areas of more contemporary cultural significance.

"place of worship" means a church, chapel or other place of public worship or religious instruction or place used for the purpose of religious training.

"plant and equipment hire establishment" means a building or place where plant and equipment are stored, displayed and hired or leased to persons for temporary use, but does not include premises used for the purpose of hiring home entertainment equipment, such as stereo sound systems, televisions, video cassette recorders, video tapes and the like.

"playground equipment" means equipment such as swings and slides, designed primarily for use by children for the purposes of play.

"pollution" means any one of the following--
(a) air pollution,
(b) pollution of waters within the meaning of the Clean Waters Act 1970 ,
(c) the emission of offensive noise as defined in section 4 (1) of the Noise Control Act 1975 ,
(d) pollution of any other kind, being pollution affecting any part of the environment and however caused.

"potentially hazardous industry" means a development for the purposes of an industry which, if the development were to operate without employing any measures to reduce or minimise its impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land, would emit a polluting discharge in a manner which would have a significant adverse impact in the locality or on the existing or likely future development on other land, and includes an offensive industry and an offensive storage establishment.

"prostitution" means sexual acts or sexual services engaged in for payment or other gain.

"public building" means a building or place used to carry on a business of, or as an office by, a public authority or an organisation established for public purposes.

"real estate exhibition sign" means a free standing advertising structure, and the display of an advertisement on it, on a public footway, where the structure or advertisement--
(a) has dimensions of not more than 750 millimetres in height or 600 millimetres in width, and
(b) only contains a direction to the location of a property for sale, auction or lease, or of an exhibition home.

"real estate sign" means an free standing advertising structure and the display of an advertisement on it in respect of a place or premises to which it is affixed which contains only a notice that the premises are for sale or letting together with particulars of the sale or letting and--
(a) in the case of a free standing advertising structure and the display on it in respect of residential or rural premises relating to letting, sale by private treaty or sale by auction--
(i) does not exceed 2.5 square metres in area, and
(ii) has returns not exceeding 180 millimetres, and
(b) in the case of a free standing advertising structure and the display of an advertisement on it in respect of commercial and industrial premises, does not exceed 4.5 square metres in area, and
(c) is not displayed for more than 14 days after letting or completion of the sale of the premises to which the sign relates.

"reception centre" means a building or place used mainly for group functions such as weddings and the like and where meals are served for gain.

"recreation facility" means a building or place used for sporting activities, recreation or leisure activities, whether or not operated for the purpose of gain, but (in the general development controls) does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this Schedule.

"relic" means any deposit, object or other material evidence of human habitation--
(a) that relates to the settlement of the area of the City of Queanbeyan, not being Aboriginal settlement, and
(b) that is more than 50 years old, and
(c) that is a fixture or is wholly or partly within the ground.

"renovation" in relation to a building or work, means--
(a) the making of structural changes to the inside or outside of the building or work, or
(b) the making of non-structural changes to the fabric or appearance of the outside of the building or work, such as changes that involve the repair, or the painting, plastering or other decoration of the building or work.

"residential flat building" means a building that comprises or includes--
(a) two or more storeys (not including levels below ground level provided for car parking or storage, or both, that protrude less than 1.2 metres above ground level), and
(b) four or more self-contained dwellings (whether or not the building includes uses for other purposes, such as shops),
but does not include a Class 1a building or a Class 1b building under the Building Code of Australia .

"restaurant" means a building or place, the principal purpose of which is the provision of food to people for consumption on the premises and includes a cafe, bistro or tea-room but (in the general development controls) does not include a building or place elsewhere defined in this Schedule.

"restricted premises" means premises where--
(a) publications classified as Category 1 restricted, Category 2 restricted or RC (Refused Classification) under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 of the Commonwealth are shown, exhibited, displayed, sold or otherwise rendered accessible to the public, or
(b) a business to which section 578E of the Crimes Act 1900 applies is conducted,
but does not include a newsagency or pharmacy.

"retail plant nursery" means a building or place used for growing plants and selling plants by retail, whether or not landscape supplies (including earth products) or other landscape and horticultural products are also sold there.

"road" includes--
(a) highway, street, lane, pathway, footpath, cycleway, thoroughfare, bridge, culvert, causeway, road-ferry, ford, crossing, bypass and trackway, whether temporary or permanent, and
(b) any part of any thing referred to in paragraph (a).

"road reserve" means the part of a road which is not used or only occasionally used by motor vehicles registered under the Traffic Act 1909 .

"roadside stall" means a place or temporary structure used for selling of agricultural produce from the same or an adjacent allotment of land.

"road transport terminal" means a building or place used primarily for the bulk handling of goods for transport by road and includes related facilities for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to transport those goods and for the parking, servicing and repair of those vehicles.

"rural industry" means the handling, treating, processing or packaging of primary products and includes the servicing in a workshop of plant or equipment used for rural purposes in the locality.

"scenic protection area" means land shown as such on the map.

"serviced apartments" means a building containing 2 or more dwellings which are cleaned and otherwise serviced or maintained by the owner or manager of the building or the owner's or manager's agent.

"service station" means a building or place primarily used for the fuelling of motor vehicles involving the sale by retail of petrol, oil or other petroleum products, and which may also be used for one or more of the following--
(a) the hiring of trailers,
(b) the retail selling or the installing of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles,
(c) the washing and greasing of motor vehicles,
(d) the repairing or servicing of motor vehicles (other than body building, panel beating or spray painting),
(e) the retail selling or hiring of small consumer goods.

"shop" means a building or place used for the purpose of selling items (whether goods or materials) whether by retail or auction, for hiring items or for displaying items for the purpose of selling or hiring them, but, where the term is used in the general development controls, does not include a building or place specifically defined elsewhere in this Schedule.

"site" in relation to development, means the area of land to which an application for consent to carry out the development relates, excluding any land on which the development is not permitted by or under this or any other environmental planning instrument.

"site coverage" means the part of the site on which buildings are situated. For the purpose of this definition, buildings include tennis courts, swimming pools, drying yards, hard surface recreation areas, garbage collection and handling spaces and paved areas, such as driveways.

"soil" means the loose material which forms the upper layer of the mantle of the earth.

"statutory fire safety measure" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 1994 .

"stock and sale yard" means a building or place used for the purpose of offering livestock or poultry for sale.

"storey" means--
(a) the space between two floors, or
(b) the space between any floor and its ceiling or roof above, or
(c) building foundation areas, garages, workshops, storerooms and the like, where the height between ground level and the floor above is 1.2 metres or more.
A storey which exceeds 4.5 metres is counted as two storeys.

"subdivision" has the same meaning as it has in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 .

"surgery" means a room used by a member or members of a health care profession to practise that profession.

"tavern" means any premises specified in a hotelier's licence endorsed as a tavern granted under the Liquor Act 1982 , which do not provide accommodation.

"temporary sign" means an advertisement of a temporary nature which--
(a) announces any local event of a religious, educational, cultural, political, social or recreational character or relates to any temporary matter in connection with such an event, and
(b) does not include advertising of a commercial nature (except for the name of an event's sponsor), and
(c) is displayed for a period of not more than 28 days.

"the map" means the sheets of the maps marked " Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 " kept in the offices of Queanbeyan City Council as amended by the maps (or by the specified sheets of the maps) so kept and marked as follows--
Editorial note : The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal or publication on the NSW legislation website. Information about the order of gazettal or publication can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 1)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 2)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 3)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 4)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 5)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 7)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 8)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 10)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 11)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 14)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 18)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 19)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 21)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 22)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 23)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 30)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 31)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 35)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 40)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 42)
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 43) --Sheet 1
Queanbeyan Local Environmental Plan 1998 (Amendment No 48)

"tourist facilities" means an establishment providing short term holiday accommodation and recreation, and may include hotels, motels, bed and breakfasts, serviced apartments, holiday cabins, caravan parks, camping grounds or houseboats, and associated swimming pools, golf courses, tennis courts and ancillary restaurants and souvenir shops.

"transitional group home" means a dwelling--
(a) used to provide temporary accommodation, for the purposes of relief or rehabilitation, for disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons, whether those persons are related or not, and
(b) occupied by the persons referred to in paragraph (a) as a single household, either with or without paid or unpaid supervision or care and with or without payment for board and lodging being required,
but does not include a building to which State Environmental Planning Policy No 5--Housing for Older People or People with a Disability applies.

"transport depot" means a building or place used for the parking or storage of motor powered or motor drawn vehicles used in connection with a passenger transport undertaking, business, industry or shop and includes a bus depot or a road transport terminal.

"utility installation" means a building or work used for a utility undertaking.

"utility undertaking" means any undertaking carried on by or by authority of any Government department, or in pursuance of any Commonwealth or State Act, for the purposes of--
(a) railway, road, water or air transport, or wharf or river undertakings, or
(b) the provision of sewerage or drainage services, or
(c) the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas, or
(d) telecommunications facilities.

"veterinary hospital" means a building or place used for diagnosing or surgically or medically treating animals, whether or not animals are kept on the premises for the purposes of treatment.

"warehouse or distribution centre" means a building or place primarily used for storing, handling or displaying items (whether goods or materials) which have been produced or manufactured for sale, other than retail sale to the public from the warehouse or distribution centre.

"waste" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 .

"waters" means the whole or any part of--
(a) any river, stream, lake, lagoon, swamp, wetlands, unconfined surface water, natural or artificial watercourse, dam or tidal waters (including the sea), or
(b) any water stored in artificial works, any water in water mains, water pipes or water channels, or any underground or artesian water.

"zone" means a classification of land shown on the map.



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