South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 114 (Southern Industrial and Rosebery/Zetland Planning Districts)
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alteration, in relation to a building, means any alteration to the building and includes partial demolition of the building.
appointed day means the day on and from which this plan takes effect.
backpackers hostel means a dwelling, residential flat building or hostel having an average of two beds or more per room and providing shared accommodation for persons who have their principal place of residence elsewhere.
boarding house means a building wholly or partly let as lodgings which provides lodgers with a principal place of residence, but does not include a backpackers hostel, building containing serviced apartments, hotel or motel.
bulky goods means large goods such as furniture, do-it-yourself home improvement materials and the like which generate a low return per unit floor area and which are, in the opinion of the Council, of such a size and shape as to require—
(a) a large area for handling storage or display,
(b) easy and direct vehicular access to enable the goods to be collected by customers after sale.
child care centre means a building or place used for the purpose of supervising or caring for children which—
(a) caters for 5 or more under school age children, whether or not those children are related to the owner or operator of the child care centre, and
(b) may include an educational function, and
(c) may operate for the purpose of gain,
but does not include a building or place providing residential care for those children.
community centre means a building or place owned or controlled by the Council, or a body of persons associated for the purpose of the physical, social, cultural, economic or intellectual welfare of the community, and used to provide facilities for administering or providing services for any one or more of the following—
(a) a public building,
(b) public health services,
(c) rest rooms,
(d) meeting rooms,
(e) indoor recreation,
(f) child minding,
(g) any other like place or activity.
Section 5 - South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 114 (Southern Industrial and Rosebery/Zetland Planning Districts) - Interpretation | Zoe
Council means the Council of the City of South Sydney.
depot means a building or place used by a public authority for the storage of materials and the servicing, repair and garaging of vehicles and equipment.
dwelling house means a building containing one but not more than one dwelling on an allotment and includes what is commonly known as a terrace house.
equipment hire centre means a building or premises used to hire out and store a range of tools and equipment and to repair and service that equipment.
floor means that space within a building (including an attic space) which is situated 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, in relation to a building, means the ratio of the gross floor area of the building to the area of the site on which the building is, or is to be, erected.
height, in relation to a building, means the vertical distance expressed in metres between a point on the ceiling of the topmost habitable floor and the natural ground level immediately below that point.
height and floor space ratio control map means the instrument marked “Height and Floor Space Ratio Control Map”, being sheet 2 of the map as amended by the maps (or, if any sheets of the maps are specified, by the specified sheets of the maps) marked as follows—
South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 135—Floor Space Ratio Map
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,
(f) other goods, systems and components intended for use in science and technology.
natural ground level, in relation to a site, means the level determined by the Council to be the natural surface of the site.
private hotel means a hotel used primarily for short term residential purposes which is not licensed under the Liquor Act 1982.
recreation area means—
(a) a children’s playground, or
(b) an area used for sporting activities or sporting facilities, or
(c) an area used to provide facilities for recreational activities which promote the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community, being facilities provided by—
(i) the Council, or
(ii) a body of persons associated for the purpose of the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of persons within the community,
but does not include a racecourse or showground.
residential flat building means a building containing two or more dwellings but does not include serviced apartments.
restricted premises means a building or place—
(a) used or intended for use as a shop or place of assembly in or on which category 1 restricted publications or category 2 restricted publications, within the meaning of the Indecent Articles and Classified Publications Act 1975, are exposed, exhibited, displayed, sold or otherwise rendered accessible or available to the public, or
(b) in or on which a business is conducted, an object of which is the display or exhibition of any article within the meaning of the Indecent Articles and Classified Publications Act 1975, or any film, within the meaning of the Film and Computer Game Classification Act 1984, that is primarily concerned with or is used or intended for use in connection with sexual behaviour but which is not printed matter,
but does not include a newsagency or pharmacy.
serviced apartment means a self-contained dwelling (in a building containing two or more self-contained dwellings) which is cleaned or serviced by the owner or manager of the building (or the agent of the owner or manager), and which provides short-term accommodation for persons who have their principal place of residence elsewhere, but does not include a backpackers hostel, boarding house or private hotel.
the map means sheets 1–2 of the map marked “South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 114 (Southern Industrial and Rosebery Zetland Planning Districts)” as amended by the maps marked as follows—
South Sydney Local Environmental Plan No 135—Zoning Map
vehicle rental centre means a building or other premises used to rent out vehicles and service those vehicles.
(2) In this plan—
(a) a reference to a building or place used for a purpose includes a reference to a building or place intended to be used for the purpose,
(b) a reference to land within a zone specified in the Table to clause 9 is a reference to land shown on the map in the manner indicated in clause 8 as the means of identifying land of the zone so specified,
(c) a reference to a map is a reference to a map deposited in the office of the Council.