South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 114 (Southern Industrial and Rosebery/Zetland Planning Districts)
17Development for the purpose of backpackers hostels or serviced apartments
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17 Development for the purpose of backpackers hostels or serviced apartments
17 Development for the purpose of backpackers hostels or serviced apartments
(1) A person shall not carry out development for the purpose of a backpackers hostels or serviced apartment (including using premises for the purposes of a backpackers hostel or serviced apartment that were formerly used as a dwelling house, residential flat building, boarding house or private hotel) except with the consent of the Council.
(2) In determining a development application for the purposes of a backpackers hostel or serviced apartment, the Council must consider—
(a) the need to maintain low cost, long term rental accommodation in the City of South Sydney particularly, but not exclusively, accommodation in the form of boarding houses, and
(b) the need to control the establishment of backpackers hostels and serviced apartments in the City of South Sydney, and
(c) the need to control the reduction in residential amenity associated with the encroachment of backpackers hostels and serviced apartments into primarily residential areas.