16Height of buildings

16 Height of buildings

16 Height of buildings

(1) Objective

• to ensure that the height and scale of development is appropriate to its location, surrounding development and the environmental characteristics of the land.

(2) Consent must not be granted to the erection of a building which exceeds the maximum height or number of storeys indicated on the Height of Buildings map in respect of the land to which the application relates.

(3) If an application for development consent made to the consent authority prior to the commencement of Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 46) is not determined by the consent authority before that date—

(a) the amendments made to Schedule 1 to this plan by Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 46) do not apply to the determination of the application, and

(b) the application is to be determined under this plan as if those amendments had not been made (that is, having regard to the definitions of height in relation to a building and storey in force under this plan immediately before that commencement).

(4) This clause does not apply to the land to which clause 53B applies.

cl 16: Am 7.1.2005; 2006 (18), Sch 1 [1].