New development codes introduced in ACT
New development codes introduced in ACT
Posted on Friday, June 21 2013 at 3:48 PM
Changes to the Australian Capital Territory’s (ACT) development codes that address solar access requirements and protect properties in character zones will commence on July 5.
Known as Variation 306, the amended codes will also simplify the
requirements for secondary residences and were introduced in a bid to support
planning goals and review residential development and subdivision policies in
the ACT.
Variation 306 will affect applications for residential and estate
development, with all applications lodged from June 18 to be assessed against
the new provisions.
Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development Simon Corbell says
there will be a grace period for applications lodged before this date, allowing
them time to be assessed under the current rules.
“This means development applications lodged before June
18 will be assessed against the current residential and estate provisions in
the Territory Plan, and will be granted a full year to get through the system,”
Corbell says.
“All development applications lodged after June 18, 2013
will be assessed against the new provisions of Variation 306.
“Exempt development that complies with the current
residential and estate provisions in the Territory Plan will need to have the
building application approved before July 5, 2013; otherwise it will have to
comply with the provisions of Variation 306.
“This will give certifiers time to finalise existing
building applications that are currently being assessed, before the new rules
come in.”
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