Planning Regulation 2017
sch.12A-sec.8Parks and other areas of open space
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sch.12A-sec.8 Parks and other areas of open space
The reconfiguration ensures access to areas for recreation, leisure or exercise by ensuring that, to the extent topography and other physical constraints reasonably permit, a part of each block for the reconfiguration is within 400m of a park or another area of open space that is accessible to the public. In this section— park includes— an existing park; and a park, to be provided under a development approval, if development of the park has started; and land identified as a park in a local planning instrument; and land identified in an LGIP for public park infrastructure. (sch.12A-sec.8-ssec.1) The reconfiguration ensures access to areas for recreation, leisure or exercise by ensuring that, to the extent topography and other physical constraints reasonably permit, a part of each block for the reconfiguration is within 400m of a park or another area of open space that is accessible to the public. (sch.12A-sec.8-ssec.2) In this section— park includes— an existing park; and a park, to be provided under a development approval, if development of the park has started; and land identified as a park in a local planning instrument; and land identified in an LGIP for public park infrastructure.
- (a) an existing park; and
- (b) a park, to be provided under a development approval, if development of the park has started; and
- (c) land identified as a park in a local planning instrument; and
- (d) land identified in an LGIP for public park infrastructure.