18Rural workers’ dwellings

18 Rural workers’ dwellings

18 Rural workers’ dwellings

(1) Objective

• to enable the provision of on-farm accommodation for rural workers only where there is a genuine need for them to live on-site and there is a demonstrated capacity of the existing farm to support their employment.

(2) Consent may be granted to the erection of a rural worker’s dwelling only if the consent authority is satisfied that—

(a) its erection will not impair the use of the land for agriculture, and

(b) the existing agricultural operation genuinely necessitates that rural workers reside on the farm and the operation has the economic capacity to support them, and

(c) the resident of the rural worker’s dwelling is to be employed on that farm, and

(d) the erection of a rural worker’s dwelling would not result in there being any more than one rural worker’s dwelling on the farm, and

(e) the dwelling will not be built on land classified as Class 1 or 2 agricultural land by the Department of Agriculture.

(3) Consent must not be granted to the erection of a rural worker’s dwelling on an allotment of land having an area of less than 40 hectares in Zone 1 (a), 1 (b2) or 7 (d) or an allotment of less than 10 hectares in Zone 1 (b2).

(4) For the purposes of subclause (3), land is taken to be in Zone 1 (b2) if it is shown on the zone map by the marking “1 (b2)”.