Advertisement means a display of symbols, messages or other devices for commercial promotional purposes for conveying information or instructions or the like, whether or not the display includes the erection of a structure or the carrying out of a work, but does not include signage for the identification and naming of buildings and uses or directional or community information signage.
Affordable housing has the meaning given to that expression in Part 4.
Bays Precinct means the land shown edged heavy black on Map 2, Sheet 3.
Brothel means premises habitually used for the purpose of prostitution. Premises may constitute a brothel even though used by only one prostitute for the purposes of prostitution.
Business floor space means the part of the gross floor area of a building that is the subject of a business use.
Business use means any form of development carried out for a commercial or educational purpose, but does not include residential development or public utility undertakings.
Community facility means a building or place that provides for the physical, social, cultural, religious, educational or intellectual development or welfare of the community, but does not include business floor space not directly related to its community function.
Conservation area means an area of heritage significance, being land identified on Map 4 as a conservation area.
Conservation management plan means a document which has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the NSW Heritage Manual and which establishes the heritage significance of a heritage item and identifies conservation management policies and management mechanisms that are appropriate to enable that significance to be retained.
Conservation policy means the guidelines prepared by the Director-General for directing conservation management within a Precinct.
Demolition, in relation to a heritage item or any other building or structure, means its damaging, defacing, destruction, pulling down or removal.
Ecologically sustainable development means development that uses, conserves and enhances the community’s resources and energy so that the ecological processes on which life depends are maintained and the total quality of life now and in the future can be increased.
Eveleigh Precinct means the land shown edged heavy black on Map 2, Sheet 2.
Floor space ratio of a building means the ratio of the gross floor area of the building to the site area.
Gross floor area means the sum of the areas of each floor of a building where the area of each floor is taken to be the area within the inner faces of the external enclosing walls as measured at a height of 1,400 millimetres above each floor level, excluding—
• columns, fin walls, sun control devices, awnings and any other elements, projections or works outside the general lines of the outer face of the external wall, and
• lift towers, cooling towers, machinery and plant rooms, and air conditioning and ventilation ducts, and
• ancillary car parking and any associated internal designated vehicular and pedestrian access thereto, and
• space for the loading and unloading of goods, and
• internal public areas such as arcades, atria and thoroughfares, and terraces and balconies with outer walls less than 1,400 millimetres high.
Height of a building, means the vertical distance measured in metres between the natural surface level of the ground on which the building is sited or, where the natural surface has been excavated, the land of the adjoining public domain, and the ceiling of the topmost habitable floor of the building above that point.
Heritage impact statement means a statement which identifies the heritage significance of a heritage item or conservation area, assesses the impact that the proposed work will have on this significance and details the measures proposed to minimise this impact.
Heritage item means a building, work, relic, tree or place identified on Map 4 as a heritage item and described in Schedule 4.
Heritage significance means historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, natural or aesthetic significance.
Home occupation means any business use of a dwelling or its surrounding land, or both, but only by permanent residents of the dwelling, being a use that does not unreasonably interfere with the use of adjoining properties or the locality.
Map means a map deposited in the Head Office of the Department.
The amending maps are not necessarily listed in the order of gazettal. Information about the order of gazettal can be determined by referring to the Historical notes at the end of the plan.
Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 26—City West. Map 1—City West Area (Amendment No 8)—1999 Update
Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 26—City West. Map 1—City West Area (Amendment No 9)
Sheet 1—Ultimo-Pyrmont Precinct—Non-Residential Development (Amendment No 9)
Master Plan means a Master Plan, as in force for the time being, adopted by the Minister.
Precinct means a precinct within City West established by Chapter 4 or any amendment of Chapter 4.
Public domain means land available for public use and includes streets, lanes, squares, playgrounds, parks, open shopping malls, pedestrian walkways and the like.
Public utility undertaking means any undertaking carried on by or under the authority of any Government department, or pursuant to any Commonwealth or State Act, for the purpose of—
• railway, light railway, road, water or air transport, or wharf or river undertakings, or
• the provision of sewerage or drainage services, or
• the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas, or
• telecommunications facilities.
Real estate sign means an advertisement of a temporary nature in respect of a place or premises to which it is attached which contains only a notice that the place or premises is or are for sale or letting together with particulars of the sale or letting and is not displayed for more than 7 days after the sale or letting.
Recreational facility means a building or place used for sporting, recreation or leisure activities, whether or not operated for the purpose of gain.
Residential development means the use of land for any form of housing, including housing leased on a short-term basis subject to the Residential Tenancies Act 1987, but does not include the use of land for a hotel, a hostel, an apartment hotel (being a building consisting of suites of rooms rented or hired out without being leased on a short-term basis), a boutique hotel, serviced apartments, backpacker accommodation, a motel or the like.
Temporary use of Land for the Purpose of a School at Wentworth Park Map means the map marked “Sydney Regional Environmental Plan No 26—City West Temporary use of Land for the Purpose of a School at Wentworth Park Map”.