Schedule 1 Meanings of terms

Schedule 1 Meanings of terms

(Clause 7 (1))

| Term | Meaning | | abattoir | a building or place where animals are slaughtered for human consumption. | | advertisement | a display by the use of symbols, messages or other devices for promotional purposes or for conveying information, instructions, directions or the like, whether or not the display includes the erection of a structure or the carrying out of a work. | | agriculture | includes horticulture and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, including the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees, and the growing of fruit, vegetables and the like. It does not include forestry, or the use of an animal establishment or a retail plant nursery. | | AHC | Australian Heritage Commission. | | airline terminal | a building or place used for the assembly of passengers and goods prior to the transport of those passengers and goods either to or from an airport or an aerodrome. | | ANEF | Australian Noise Exposure Forecast within the meaning of Australian Standard AS 2021–1994Acoustics—Aircraft noise intrusion—Building siting and construction. | | ANEF contour | a noise exposure contour shown on a plan or plans of Coolangatta Airport and surrounding areas prepared by the Coolangatta Airport operator. | | animal establishment | a building or place used for any one or more of the purposes of intensive animal husbandry, or the boarding, training or the keeping of animals, birds, fish, crustaceans, insects or the like, generally requiring the importation of feed from outside the land on which the establishment is conducted. | | appointed day | the day on which this plan is gazetted. | | archaeological site | a site identified as such in Schedule 2. | | beach maintenance | restoration works carried out to aid in the stabilisation of the beach area. | | bed and breakfast | the use of a lawfully erected dwelling, in addition to its use as a principal place of residence—(a) for the provision of short-term accommodation for persons other than its permanent residents, and(b) for the provision, by its permanent residents, of meals and other services incidental to its use for the provision of short-term accommodation. | | boarding-house | includes a house let in lodgings or a hostel, but does not include a motel or a permanent or transitional group home. | | boat repair and servicing facility | a building or place used to repair, service or restore boats. | | boat showroom | land used for the display or sale of boats, whether or not boat accessories are sold or displayed there. | | boating facility | land used for the purposes of recreational boating activities, and includes a marina, boat launching ramp, boat repair and servicing facility, wharf, jetty and any means of dry storage for boats. | | brothel | a building habitually used for the purpose of prostitution being prostitution within the meaning of the Summary Offences Act 1988. | | bulk store | land used for the bulk storage of goods, where the goods stored or to be stored are not required for use in a shop or commercial premises on the same parcel of land or on adjoining land in the same ownership. | | bulky goods retailing | use of premises for the sale by retail or auction, or the hire or display, of articles which are of such a size, shape or weight as to require—(a) a large area for handling, storage or display, or(b) direct vehicular access to the premises by members of the public for the purpose of loading articles into their vehicles after purchase.It may include—(a) plant sales and hire (which may include associated repairs and service),(b) vehicle part and accessory sales (which may include fitting),(c) the sale of hardware, landscape or building supplies,(d) the sale of furniture, floor coverings, light fittings, large electrical goods, swimming pools, spas or camping equipment.It does not include the sale of clothing or foodstuffs, or a motor showroom. | | bus depot | land used for the servicing, repair and garaging of buses and other vehicles used for the purposes of a bus transport undertaking. | | bus station | land used as a terminal for the assembly and dispersal of passengers travelling by bus. | | bushfire hazard reduction | a reduction or modification (by controlled burning, chemical, mechanical or manual means) of material that constitutes a bushfire hazard. | | Business Centres Map | the series of maps marked “Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 31)—Business Centres”, as amended by the maps listed in Part 5 of Schedule 6. | | business identification sign | an advertisement that displays any or all of the following information relating to the place or premises to which it is fixed—(a) the identity or a description of the place or premises,(b) the identity or a description of any person residing or carrying on an occupation at the place or premises,(c) particulars of any occupation carried on at the place or premises,(d) such directions or cautions as are usual or necessary relating to the place or premises or any occupation carried on there,(e) particulars or notifications required or permitted to be displayed by or under any State or Commonwealth Act,(f) particulars relating to the goods, commodities or services dealt with or provided at the place or premises,(g) particulars of any activities held or to be held at the place or premises,(h) a reference to an affiliation with a trade, professional or other association relevant to the business conducted at the place or premises. | | camping ground | land used for the placement of tents and camper vans. | | car park | land used principally for the purpose of parking vehicles off-street whether operated for gain or not. | | car repair station | land used for the purpose of carrying out repairs to motor vehicles or agricultural machinery not being—(a) body building, or(b) panel beating which involves dismantling, or(c) spray painting other than of a touching-up character. | | caravan park | land (including a camping ground) on which caravans (or caravans and other moveable dwellings) are, or are to be, installed or placed. | | child care centre | land used (whether or not for profit) for the purpose of educating, minding or caring for children (whether or not any of the children are related to the owner or operator), but only if the following conditions are satisfied—(a) the children number 6 or more, are under 6 years of age, and do not attend a government school, or a registered non-government school, within the meaning of the Education Act 1990,(b) residential care is not provided on the land for any of the children (other than those related to the owner or operator). | | club | a building used by persons associated, or by a body incorporated, for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic or other lawful purposes whether of the same or of a different kind and whether or not the whole or a part of such building is the premises of a club registered under the Registered Clubs Act 1976. | | commercial premises | land used as an office or for other business or commercial purposes, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or a building or place used for a land use elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule. | | community building | a building owned, occupied or operated by the Council or another public authority and used to provide facilities comprising or relating to any one or more of the following—(a) an art and craft centre,(b) a child care centre,(c) a health centre,(d) a indoor recreation centre,(e) a information centre,(f) a kiosk,(g) a library,(h) a meeting room,(i) a neighbourhood centre,(j) a rest room,(k) a senior citizens centre,(l) a youth centre,(m) a welfare centre,(n) any other like place. | | contaminated land | land in, on or under which any substance is present at a concentration above that naturally present in, on or under the land and that poses, or is likely to pose, an immediate or long-term risk to human health or the environment. | | cruise craft dock | land used for the purpose of docking, mooring, servicing and repairing cruise craft (being aquatic vessels containing toilet accommodation), and for the purpose of embarkation and disembarkation of their passengers and crew. | | demolish, in relation to a heritage item or a building, work, relic, tree or place within a heritage conservation area | wholly or partly destroy or dismantle the heritage item or building, work, relic, tree or place. | | depot | land used for the storage or maintenance, or both, of plant, machinery, equipment, building materials and the like. | | designated road | includes—(a) an RTA classified road, and(b) a council designated road as shown on the map marked “Tweed Local Environmental Plan 1998—Designated Roads”, as amended by the maps listed in Part 4 of Schedule 6. | | display home | a dwelling used for display purposes to encourage people to buy or construct similar dwellings. | | dwelling | a room or suite of rooms occupied or used or so constructed or adapted as to be capable of being occupied or used as a separate domicile. | | dwelling house | a building containing one but not more than one dwelling. | | earthworks | the addition or removal of any solid material on, to or from land, or any other work which will substantially alter the existing ground level or character of the surface of land. | | educational establishment | a building or place used for a primary or secondary school, a museum, gallery, or a tertiary education institution (being a university, a TAFE establishment or other specialist college providing formal education beyond secondary education and which is constituted by or under an Act).It includes—(a) ancillary residential accommodation and facilities for students or staff, and(b) the community use or development for community use of the facilities or site of the establishment, whether for gain or not.It does not include an institution or a child care centre. | | emergency service facilities | facilities for air-sea rescue, surf life saving, bushfire control, ambulances or the like. | | environmental facility | a structure or work which provides for—(a) nature study or display facilities such as walking, board walks, observation decks, bird hides or the like, or(b) environmental management and restoration facilities such as bush restoration, swamp restoration, erosion and run off prevention works, dune restoration or the like. | | extractive industry | means—(a) the winning of extractive material, or(b) an undertaking, not being a mine, which depends for its operations on the winning of extractive material from the land on which it is carried on,but does not include earthworks or works for drainage and landfill or maintenance dredging. | | extractive material | sand, silt, gravel, clay, turf, soil, rock, stone or similar substances. | | finished ground level, in relation to land | means the following (and, if more than one of the following paragraphs applies in relation to the land, whichever is the highest)—(a) the natural ground level of the land that was the level of the land at the appointed day, or the level of the land after such earthworks (excluding any basement excavations) as are consented to by the consent authority, whichever is the lower,(b) the level of the land approved by the consent authority as the finished ground level of the land prior to the commencement of Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 46),(c) if the land is within an area identified by the Council as flood liable land, the level of the land after filling the land in accordance with the consent of the consent authority to the adopted design flood level under Section A3—Development of Flood Liable Land of Tweed Development Control Plan. | | floor space ratio | the ratio of the total gross floor area of all buildings on a site to the area of the site. | | forestry | includes arboriculture, sylviculture, forest protection, the cutting, dressing and preparation, other than in a sawmill, of wood and other forest products and the establishment of roads required for the removal of wood and forest products and for forest protection. | | general store | a shop used for the sale by retail of general merchandise and which may include the facilities of a post office. | | generating works | land used for the purpose of making or generating gas, electricity or other forms of energy. | | gross floor area | 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 outer face of the external enclosing walls as measured at a height of 1,400 millimetres above each floor level, excluding—(a) columns, fin walls, sun control devices and any elements, projections or works outside the general lines of the outer face of the external wall,(b) lift towers, cooling towers, machinery and plant rooms and ancillary storage space and vertical air-conditioning ducts,(c) car parking needed to meet any requirements of the Council and any internal access thereto,(d) space for the loading and unloading of goods. | | HC | Heritage Council of New South Wales. | | health care professional | a person who provides professional health services to members of the public, and includes—(a) a podiatrist registered under the Podiatrists Act 1989, and(b) a chiropractor or osteopath or chiropractor and osteopath registered under the Chiropractors and Osteopaths Act 1991, and(c) an optometrist registered under the Optometrists Act 1930. | | height, in relation to a building | the greatest distance measured vertically from any point on the building to the finished ground level immediately below that point. | | Height of Buildings map | the series of maps marked “Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000—Height of Buildings”, as amended by the maps listed in Part 3 of Schedule 6. | | helipad | land not open to public use which is set apart for the taking off and landing of helicopters. | | heliport | land open to public use which is used by helicopters and includes terminal buildings and facilities for the parking, servicing and repair of helicopters. | | heritage conservation area | land shown on the zone map as a heritage conservation area and includes buildings, works, relics, trees and places situated on or within that land. | | heritage item | a building, work, relic, tree or place (which may or may not be situated on or within land that is a heritage conservation area) described in Schedule 2. | | heritage significance | historic, scientific, cultural, social, archaeological, architectural, natural or aesthetic significance. | | home business | an activity, business or occupation carried on in a dwelling house, or in an ancillary building on the same lot as a dwelling house, by one or more of the permanent residents of the dwelling house, where—(a) not more than two other non-resident persons are engaged in the activity, business or occupation on the site or use the site as a base (other than electronically), and(b) it does not occupy more than 80 square metres of floor space, and(c) it does not interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of—(i) excessive vehicular traffic generation or reduction in parking availability in the vicinity of the site, or(ii) the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit or oil, or otherwise, and(d) no articles are displayed on, or sold or offered for sale by retail from, the land, and(e) the only sign, advertisement or notice on the land is one on the dwelling house to indicate the name and the activity, business, or occupation of the resident, and(f) it does not involve a change in the appearance of the dwelling house or land on which it is erected that is out of character with that of the surrounding area.It does not include a brothel, child care centre or professional consulting rooms. | | home industry | an industry carried on in a building other than a dwelling under the following circumstances—(a) the building does not occupy a floor space exceeding 50 square metres and is erected within the curtilage of the dwelling occupied by the person carrying on the industry or on adjoining land owned by that person, and(b) the industry does not—(i) interfere with the amenity of the locality by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products or grit or oil, or otherwise, or(ii) involve exposure to view from any adjacent premises or from any public place of any unsightly matter, or(iii) require the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity than that available in the locality. | | home occupation | an occupation carried on in a dwelling by the permanent residents of the dwelling which does not involve—(a) the registration of the building under the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962, or(b) the employment of persons other than those residents, or(c) interference with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products or grit or oil or otherwise, or(d) the display of goods, whether in a window or otherwise, or(e) the exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign (other than a notice, advertisement or sign exhibited on that dwelling to indicate the name and occupation of the resident), or(f) the sale of items (whether goods or materials) or the exposure or offer for sale of items, by retail. | | hospital | a building or place (other than an institution) used for the purpose of providing professional health care services (such as preventative or convalescent care, diagnosis, medical or surgical treatment, care for people with developmental disabilities, psychiatric care or counselling and services provided by health care professionals) to people admitted as in-patients (whether or not out-patients are also cared for or treated there), and includes—(a) ancillary facilities for the accommodation of nurses or other health care workers, and(b) ancillary shops or refreshment rooms, and(c) ancillary accommodation for persons receiving health care or for their visitors, and(d) facilities situated in the building or at the place and used for educational or research purposes, whether or not they are used only by hospital staff or health care workers, and whether or not any such use is a commercial use. | | hotel | premises to which a hotelier’s licence granted under the Liquor Act 1982 relates. | | housing for older people or people with disabilities | residential accommodation which is used permanently as housing for the accommodation of older people or people with a disability which may consist of a residential care facility, a hostel or a grouping of 2 or more self-contained dwellings, or a combination of these, but does not include a hospital. | | industry | means—(a) any manufacturing process within the meaning of the Factories, Shops and Industries Act 1962, or(b) the breaking up or dismantling of any goods or any article for trade or sale or gain or as ancillary to any business,but does not include an extractive industry. | | institution | a penal or reformative establishment. | | integrated housing | includes—(a) the subdivision of land into 3 or more allotments, and(b) the erection of a dwelling on each of the allotments to be created by that subdivision provided that the erection of the dwelling occurs prior to the issue of a subdivision certificate except where a strata management statement, or restriction as to user, prohibits any dwelling on each lot other than the dwelling approved by an integrated housing consent. | | junkyard | land used for the collection, storage, abandonment or sale of scrap metals, waste paper, rags, bottles or other scrap materials or goods or used for the collecting, dismantling, storage, salvaging or abandonment of automobiles or other vehicles or machinery or for the sale of parts thereof. | | light industry | an industry, not being an offensive or hazardous industry, in which the processes carried on, the transportation involved or the machinery or materials used do not interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, waste water, waste products, grit or oil, or otherwise. | | liquid fuel depot | land used for the bulk storage for wholesale distribution of petrol, oil, petroleum or other inflammable liquid. | | manufactured home | a self-contained dwelling (that is, a dwelling that contains at least one kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and living area and that also includes toilet and laundry facilities), being a dwelling—(a) that comprises one or more major sections that are each constructed, and assembled, away from the manufactured home estate on which it is situated and transported to the estate for installation on the estate, and(b) that is not capable of being registered under the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act 1997,and includes any associated structures that form part of the dwelling. | | manufactured home estate | land on which manufactured homes are, or are to be, erected. | | marina | a pontoon, jetty, pier or similar structure, designed or adapted to provide moorings primarily for boats used for pleasure or recreation, and includes ancillary works such as a slipway and facilities for the provision of fuel, accessories and parts for boats. | | market | a temporary outlet for the sale of local crafts and goods, a large proportion of which are not available through normal commercial outlets—(a) which operates on one day of a week only, and(b) which does not require the erection of permanent structures. | | mine | (a) any place, open cut, shaft, tunnel, pit, drive, level or other excavation, drift, gutter, lead, vein, lode or reef whereon, wherein or whereby any operation is carried on, for or in connection with the purpose of obtaining any metal or mineral by any mode or method, and(b) any place on which any product so obtained is stacked, stored, crushed or otherwise treated,but does not include a quarry. | | mineral sand mine | a mine used for or in connection with the purpose of obtaining ilmenite, monazite, rutile, zircon or similar minerals. | | minor boundary adjustment | means a subdivision of adjoining lots to create new lots none of which is significantly different in area, shape or dimensions from the corresponding former lot. | | motel | a building or buildings (other than a hotel, boarding-house or dwelling used to provide bed and breakfast) substantially used for the overnight accommodation of travellers and the vehicles used by them, whether or not the building or buildings are also used in the provision of meals to those travellers or the general public. | | motor showroom | land used for the display or sale of motor cycles, motor vehicles, agricultural machinery or caravans, whether or not motor vehicle accessories, agricultural machinery accessories or caravan accessories are sold or displayed therein or thereon. | | moveable dwelling | includes—(a) any tent, or any caravan or other van or other portable device (whether on wheels or not), used for human habitation, or(b) a manufactured home. | | multi-dwelling housing | more than one dwelling on an allotment, but does not include a rural worker’s dwelling. | | noxious weed control | the suppression or destruction of noxious weed material as authorised under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 and the incidental and unavoidable destruction or removal of plants lying adjacent to noxious weed material that are to be suppressed or destroyed. | | NTA | National Trust of Australia (New South Wales). | | offensive or hazardous industry | an industry which, by reason of the processes involved or the method of manufacture or the nature of the materials used or produced, requires isolation from other buildings. | | outdoor eating area | an area of public land used for seating in association with an adjacent restaurant, whether or not it is covered or separated from the rest of the public land. | | place of assembly | a public hall, theatre, music hall, concert hall, open-air theatre, drive-in theatre, music bowl or any other building of a like character used as such and whether used for purposes of gain or not, but does not include a place of public worship, an institution or an educational establishment. | | place of public worship | a church, chapel or other place of public worship or religious instruction or a place used for the purpose of religious training. | | potential archaeological site | a site identified as such in Schedule 2 and includes a site known to the consent authority to have archaeological potential even if it is not so identified. | | professional consulting rooms | a room or a number of rooms forming either the whole of or part of, attached to or within the curtilage of a dwelling house and used by not more than three legally qualified medical practitioners or by not more than three dentists within the meaning of the Dentists Act 1989, or by not more than three health care professionals, who practise therein the profession of medicine, dentistry or health care, respectively, and, if more than one, practise in partnership, and who employ not more than three employees in connection with that practice. | | public building | a building used as offices or for administrative or other like purposes by the Crown, a statutory body, a council or an organisation established for public purposes. | | public utility undertaking | any of the following undertakings carried on or permitted or suffered to be carried on by or by authority of any Government Department or under the authority of or in pursuance of any Commonwealth or State Act—(a) railway, road transport, water transport, air transport, wharf or river undertakings,(b) undertakings for the supply of water, hydraulic power, electricity or gas or the provision of sewerage or drainage services,(c) undertakings for the provision of telecommunications infrastructure.A reference to a person carrying on a public utility undertaking is to be construed as including a reference to a council, county council, Government Department, corporation, licensed telecommunications carrier, firm or authority carrying on the undertaking. | | real estate sign | an advertisement that contains only a notice that the place or premises to which it is fixed is or are for sale or letting (together with particulars of the sale or letting), and that is not displayed for more than 14 days after the letting or completion of the sale. | | recreation area | means—(a) a children’s playground, or(b) an area used for sporting activities or sporting facilities, or(c) an area used by the Council to provide recreational facilities for the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of the community, or(d) an area used by a body of persons associated together for the purposes of the physical, cultural or intellectual welfare of the community to provide recreational facilities for those purposes.It does not include a racecourse or a showground. | | recreation establishment | health farms, religious retreat houses, rest homes, youth camps and the like, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or a building or place used or intended for use for a land use elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule. | | recreation facility | land used for indoor recreation, a billiard saloon, table tennis centre, squash court, swimming pool, gymnasium, health studio, bowling alley, fun parlour or any other building of a like character used for recreation and whether used for the purpose of gain or not, but does not include a place of assembly. | | recreation vehicle area | has the meaning ascribed to it in the Recreation Vehicles Act 1983. | | recreational beach activities | activities on public land which are ancillary to the recreational use of a beach, such as the sale of refreshments or the hire of umbrellas, chairs, mats or lockers, but not including the following—(a) activities that make use of any structure that is not dismantled at the end of each day’s use,(b) the use or hire of motorised vehicles or equipment,(c) activities that have the potential to degrade the coastal environment,(d) activities that have the potential to have negative impact on the well-being and amenity of beach users,(e) activities that are located within the frontal dune system or the vegetated dunal areas,(f) activities that require access into the frontal dune system or vegetated dunal areas otherwise than by approved access points as contained in the Council’s Dune Management Plan (as in force immediately before the commencement of Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000 (Amendment No 18)). | | refreshment room | a restaurant, cafe, tea room, eating house or the like. | | relic | means—(a) any deposit, object or material evidence (which may consist of human remains) relating to the use or settlement of the area of Tweed, not being Aboriginal habitation, which is more than 50 years old, or(b) any deposit, object or material evidence (which may consist of human remains) relating to Aboriginal habitation of the area of Tweed whether before or after its occupation by persons of European extraction. | | remediation | means—(a) removing the cause of the contamination of any land, or(b) dispersing, destroying, reducing, mitigating or containing the contamination of any land, or(c) eliminating or reducing any hazard arising from the contamination of any land (including preventing the entry of persons or animals onto the land). | | respite care centre | land used for the provision of respite care for aged persons or people who are physically, mentally, or socially disadvantaged. | | restricted premises | premises (other than a newsagency or pharmacy) where—(a) publications classified Category 1 restricted, Category 2 restricted or RC under the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995 of the Commonwealth are shown, exhibited, displayed, sold or otherwise made accessible or available to the public, or(b) a business to which section 578E of the Crimes Act 1900 applies is conducted. | | retail plant nursery | land used for both the growing and retail selling of plants, whether or not ancillary products are sold therein. | | reticulated sewerage system | a network of pipes which collects sewage from individual premises and conveys it to a point of treatment and disposal. | | road | a road within the meaning of the Roads Act 1993. | | road transport terminal | land used for the principal purpose of the bulk handling of goods for transport by road, including facilities for the loading and unloading of vehicles used to transport those goods and for the parking, servicing and repair of those vehicles. | | roadside stall | a building or place not exceeding 20m2 in floor space or area, respectively, where only primary products produced on the property on which the building or place is situated are exposed or offered for sale or sold by retail. | | RTA | Roads and Traffic Authority. | | rural industry | handling, treating, processing or packing of primary products in the locality and includes the servicing in a workshop of plant or equipment used for rural purposes in the locality. | | rural tourist facility | an establishment which is designed, located and operated to principally provide educational, recreational or leisure facilities or activities related to—(a) farming or the processing of farm products, or(b) appreciation of the natural environment.It may also provide associated tourist accommodation, refreshment rooms, or exhibition or function centre facilities, if they are commensurate in scale to the principal facilities or activities. | | rural worker’s dwelling | a dwelling which is on land on which there is already erected a dwelling or dwellings and which is occupied by persons engaged in rural occupation on that land. | | sawmill | a mill handling, cutting and processing timber from logs or baulks. | | service station | building or place used for the fuelling of motor vehicles involving the sale by retail of petrol, oil and other petroleum products, whether or not the building or place is also used for any one or more of the following purposes—(a) the sale by retail of spare parts and accessories for motor vehicles,(b) washing and greasing of motor vehicles,(c) installation of accessories,(d) repairing and servicing of motor vehicles involving the use of hand tools (other than repairing and servicing which involves top overhaul of motors, body building, panel beating, spray painting, or suspension, transmission or chassis restoration),(e) a general store. | | shop | land used for the purpose of selling, exposing or offering for sale by retail, goods, merchandise or materials, but does not include a building or place elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule or used for a land use elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule. | | site area | the area of land to which an application for consent under the Act relates, excluding any land on which the development to which the application relates is not permitted by or under this plan. | | stock and sale yard | land used for the purpose of offering animals for sale and includes a public cattle market. | | storage unit | land used for the storage of goods, merchandise or materials, whether or not they are distributed to persons engaged in the retail trade. | | storey | means—(a) the space between two floors, or(b) the space between a floor and any ceiling or roof immediately above it, or(c) foundation areas, garages, workshops, storerooms and the like, excluding access paths to basement areas, where the height between the finished ground level and the top of the floor immediately above them exceeds 1.5 metres in height.A storey which exceeds 4.5 metres for residential buildings is counted as two storeys.A storey which exceeds 5 metres for commercial buildings is counted as two storeys.For the purpose of counting the number of storeys in a building, the number is to be the maximum number of storeys of the building which may be intersected by the same vertical line, not being a line which passes through any wall of the building. | | telecommunications infrastructure | a “facility”, “telecommunications transmission tower” or “tower” as defined in the Telecommunications Code of Practice 1997 of the Commonwealth, but does not include a “low impact facility” as also defined in the Code. | | temporary sign | an advertisement of a temporary nature that—(a) announces any local level event of a religious, educational, cultural, political, social or recreational character or relates to any temporary matter in connection with such an event, and(b) does not include advertising of a commercial nature except for the name of the event’s sponsor.Temporary signs may consist of advertisements in the form of banners, bunting, posters, inflatable structures and similar things. | | the Act | the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. | | the Council | Tweed Shire Council. | | tourist accommodation | a building principally used for the accommodation of tourists but does not include a building elsewhere specifically defined in this Schedule. | | tourist facilities | an establishment principally used for the recreation or enjoyment of tourists and may include an amusement park, boat shed, boating facility, cruise craft dock, tavern, marina, playground, refreshment room, shop, theme park, water sport facilities or the like or a club used in conjunction with any such activities. | | tourist resort | a largely self-contained holiday destination establishment which provides—(a) tourist accommodation, and(b) on-site facilities to satisfy all, or substantially all, of the recreational, entertainment, dining and other holiday needs of its resident tourists. | | transport terminal | land used as an airline terminal, a road transport terminal, a bus station or a bus depot. | | Tweed Development Control Plan | Tweed Development Control Plan, as adopted by the Council on 17 October 2006. | | unzoned land | land to which this plan applies that is shown uncoloured on the zone map. | | urban stormwater water quality management facility | a detention basin, artificial wetland or similar large facility constructed to manage the water quality of urban stormwater. | | utility installation | a building or work used by a public utility undertaking, but does not include a building designed wholly or principally as administrative or business premises or as a showroom. It may include generating works and gasholders. | | warehouse | land used for the storage of goods, merchandise or materials pending their sale and distribution to persons engaged in the retail trade. | | waterbed | means—(a) a lake or lagoon either naturally formed or artificially modified, or(b) a watercourse, whether perennial or intermittent, flowing in a natural channel with an established bed or in a natural channel artificially modifying the course of the water flow, or which has a defined bed and banks, or(c) tidal waters (other than the ocean) including any bay, estuary or inlet, or(d) a constructed waterway, canal, inlet, bay, channel or lake which connects to a waterbed specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c),but does not include an agricultural drain or a dry detention basin or other construction that is only intended to hold water intermittently. | | wetland | land inundated with temporary or permanent water that is usually slow moving or stationary or shallow and either fresh, brackish or saline, and where the inundation determines the type and productivity of soils and the plant and animal communities. | | works for drainage and landfill | the removal of extractive material from land for the principal purpose of providing a method of stormwater drainage and the subsequent filling or spoiling of the extractive material on an allotment. | | zone map | the series of maps marked “Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2000”, as amended by the maps (or sheets of maps) listed in Part 2 of Schedule 6.Editorial note.For amendments to the legend on the zone map see Gazette No 105 of 18.8.2000, p 7856, paragraph 6. |