Section 94(1) of the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 (NSW) requires the consent authority to focus on the particular development and determine whether it will or is likely to require the provision of or increase the demand for the relevant public amenity. It is not sufficient that the development will merely benefit from the amenity. The statutory phrase imposes an independent requirement beyond the Newbury tests for validity of planning conditions. A contributions plan may be valid even though a particular condition imposed under it is not, where the specific development does not satisfy the statutory phrase.
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