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Schedule 2 Exempt development

(Clause 3.1)

Note 1.

State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 specifies exempt development under that Policy. The Policy has State-wide application. This Schedule contains additional exempt development not specified in that Policy.

Note 2.

Exempt development may be carried out without the need for development consent under the Act. Such development is not exempt from any approval, licence, permit or authority that is required under any other Act and adjoining owners’ property rights and the common law still apply.

Note 3.

Despite Note 1, under clause 1.9(3) of State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 this Plan continues to apply to that development and under clause 1.9(10) of that Policy that development may be carried out under this Plan or that Policy.

Note 4.

Development that is the installation of photovoltaic cells, small wind turbine systems, and solar energy systems (including solar hot water systems) may be carried out as exempt development under State Environmental Planning Policy (Transport and Infrastructure) 2021, Chapter 2.

sch 2: Am 2018 (488), Sch 1.2; 2019 (621), Sch 1.2[2]; 2020 (69), Sch 1.1[3]; 2020 (221), Sch 1[3]–[48]; 2021 (11), Sch 1[1]–[8]; 2022 (72), Sch 1.7[1]–[3]; 2022 (828), Sch 1.3[11]–[22]; 2024 (17), Sch 1[1] [2]; 2024 (538), Sch 1.