Contents (2004 - 143)
State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing for Seniors or People with a Disability) 2004
Status information

Chapter 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Policy
2 Aims of Policy
3 Interpretation
4 Land to which Policy applies
5 Relationship to other environmental planning instruments
6 Transitional provisions relating to certain development applications and development
7 Suspension of certain agreements and covenants

Chapter 2 Key concepts

8 Seniors
9 People with a disability
10 Seniors housing
11 Residential care facilities
12 Hostels
13 Self-contained dwellings

Chapter 3 Development for seniors housing

Part 1 General

14 Objective of Chapter
15 What Chapter does
16 Development consent required
17 Development on land adjoining land zoned primarily for urban purposes
18 Restrictions on occupation of seniors housing allowed under this Chapter
19 Use of seniors housing in commercial zones
20 (Repealed)
21 Subdivision
22 Fire sprinkler systems in residential care facilities for seniors
23 Development on land used for the purposes of an existing registered club

Part 1A Site compatibility certificates

24 Site compatibility certificates required for certain development applications
25 Application for site compatibility certificate

Part 2 Site-related requirements

Note
26 Location and access to facilities
27 Bush fire prone land
28 Water and sewer
29 Consent authority to consider certain site compatibility criteria for development applications to which clause 24 does not apply

Part 3 Design requirements

Division 1 General

30 Site analysis
31 Design of in-fill self-care housing
32 Design of residential development

Division 2 Design principles

33 Neighbourhood amenity and streetscape
34 Visual and acoustic privacy
35 Solar access and design for climate
36 Stormwater
37 Crime prevention
38 Accessibility
39 Waste management

Part 4 Development standards to be complied with

Division 1 General

40 Development standards—minimum sizes and building height

Division 2 Residential care facilities—standards concerning accessibility and useability

Note

Division 3 Hostels and self-contained dwellings—standards concerning accessibility and useability

41 Standards for hostels and self-contained dwellings

Part 5 Development on land adjoining land zoned primarily for urban purposes

42 Serviced self-care housing
43 Transport services to local centres
44 Availability of facilities and services

Part 6 Development for vertical villages

45 Vertical villages

Part 7 Development standards that cannot be used as grounds to refuse consent

Division 1 General

46 Inter-relationship of Part with design principles in Part 3
47 Part does not apply to certain development applications relating to heritage affected land

Division 2 Residential care facilities

48 Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for residential care facilities

Division 3 Hostels

49 Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for hostels

Division 4 Self-contained dwellings

50 Standards that cannot be used to refuse development consent for self-contained dwellings

Chapter 4 Miscellaneous

51 Amendments to the bush fire evacuation risk map
52 Savings for development applications made before SEPP (Seniors Living) 2004 (Amendment No 1)
53 Savings and transitional provisions for development applications made before SEPP (Seniors Living) 2004 (Amendment No 2)
54 Savings and transitional provisions—site compatibility amendments
55 Residential care facilities for seniors required to have fire sprinkler systems

 Schedule 1 Environmentally sensitive land

 Schedule 2 (Repealed)

 Schedule 3 Standards concerning accessibility and useability for hostels and self-contained dwellings

Historical notes