16ASex services premises

16A Sex services premises

16A Sex services premises

(1) The objectives of this clause are as follows—

(a) to specify appropriate planning controls relating to the use of premises as sex services premises,

(b) to ensure that sex services premises are not located near or within view of a school, church or hospital or any place frequented by children, or within or near land that is within a residential zone or used for residential purposes,

(c) to provide for sufficient separation between sex services premises so that there is not a concentration of those premises in any one locality,

(d) to limit the size of sex services premises.

(2) Despite any other provision of this plan, the council may grant consent to the carrying out of development for the purposes of sex services premises only if—

(a) the council is satisfied that the premises will not be near, or within view of, any educational establishment, place of public worship or hospital or any place frequented by children, and

(b) the premises will not be located within 100 metres of—

(i) land within Zone No 2, or

(ii) land within Zone No 5 (a) used for the purposes of an educational establishment, place of public worship or hospital, or

(iii) land used for residential purposes, and

(c) the premises will not be located within 200 metres of the boundary of any land on which there is one or more than one sex services premises lawfully operating, and

(d) the council is satisfied that the premises will not contain more than five rooms used, or capable of being used, for the purposes of sex services.

(3) For the purposes of subclause (2) (d), any room with an area exceeding 18m2 is taken to comprise two rooms.

cl 16A: Ins 2006 (143), Sch 1 [6].