Schedule 5 State policies

Schedule 5 State policies

(Clause 12 (1) (b))

Housing for older people or people with a disability

It is State policy to encourage the provision of housing that will—

(a) increase the supply and diversity of housing that meets the needs of older people or people with a disability, and

(b) make efficient use of existing infrastructure and services, and

(c) be of good design.

Group homes

It is State policy—

(a) to facilitate the establishment of permanent group homes in which disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons may lead as normal a life as possible by living permanently in an ordinary residential household environment, instead of in an institutional environment, and

(b) to facilitate the establishment of transitional group homes which provide temporary accommodation for disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons in an ordinary residential household environment instead of in an institutional environment for purposes such as alcohol or drug rehabilitation, “half-way” rehabilitation for persons formerly living in institutions and refuges for men, women or young people, and

(c) to ensure that applications for group homes are not refused by councils unless there has been an assessment made of the community need for the group home.

Caravan parks

Hazardous and offensive development

It is State policy—

(a) to ensure that in determining whether a development is a hazardous or offensive industry, any measures proposed to be employed to reduce the impact of the development are taken into account, and

(b) to ensure that in considering any application to carry out potentially hazardous or offensive development, the consent authority has sufficient information to assess whether the development is hazardous or offensive and to impose conditions to reduce or minimise any adverse impact, and

(c) to require the advertising of applications to carry out any such development.

Maintenance dredging of tidal waterways

It is State policy to enable the maintenance dredging of tidal waterways by public authorities to be carried out in a timely, cost effective and environmentally responsible manner in response to changing conditions in those waterways.