Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2005
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45 Development within the Parks and Community Places zone
45 Development within the Parks and Community Places zone
(1) Development may be carried out without consent within the Parks and Community Places zone if it is exempt development or (unless it is development for the purpose of roads) carried out in accordance with a plan of management.
(2) Within the Parks and Community Places zone, development (other than development in accordance with a plan of management) for the purpose of the following may be carried out on any land, but only with development consent—
(a) buildings used for cultural activities, landscaping and gardening, or recreational facilities,
(b) car parking,
(c) kiosks,
(d) refreshment rooms,
(e) roads, except where carried out as exempt development or in accordance with any plan of management,
(f) shops and commercial premises associated with underground railway stations,
(g) signs incidental or ancillary to another permitted use,
(h) temporary uses of any kind,
(i) underground public utility undertakings, located under the surface of a road or public thoroughfare, or adjacent to or bordering a road or public thoroughfare, but only if the undertakings are not inconsistent with any plan of management,
(j) other land uses which the consent authority is satisfied are incidental or ancillary to land uses which may be lawfully carried out within the zone.
(3) Within the curtilage of the building within the part of the Parks and Community Places zone outlined in red and annotated (iii) on the Central Sydney Site Identification Map, development for the purpose of the following may also be carried out, but only with development consent—
coach and bus parking or layovers and associated facilities, including shops, information facilities, refreshment rooms and ancillary uses.
(4) Within the Parks and Community Places zone, below the plaza ground surface as at the commencement of this plan, on Lot 2, DP 225060, (being part of the land bounded by George Street, Curtin Place, Pitt Street and Bond Street, Sydney, and known as Australia Square), any development (including development for the purpose of advertisements or advertising structures and temporary uses of any kind) may be carried out, but only with development consent.