Blacktown Local Environmental Plan 2015

The objective of this clause is to minimise land use conflicts and adverse amenity impacts by providing a reasonable level of separation between restricted premises, sex services premises, specified land uses and places regularly frequented by children.

Development consent must not be granted to development for the purposes of restricted premises or sex services premises unless the premises are located—

at least 200 metres (measured from the closest boundary of the lot on which the premises are proposed) from any residence or any land in a residential zone, and

at least 200 metres (measured from the closest boundary of the lot on which the premises are proposed) from any place of public worship, hospital, school, centre-based child care facility, community facility or recreation area, and

at least 50 metres (measured from the closest boundary of the lot on which the premises are proposed) from any railway station entrance, bus stop, taxi rank, ferry terminal or the like, and

at least 200 metres (measured from the closest boundary of the lot on which the premises are proposed) from any existing or proposed restricted premises or sex services premises, and

on any floor other than the ground floor of a building.

In deciding whether to grant development consent to development for the purposes of restricted premises or sex services premises, the consent authority must consider the following—

the impact that the development and its hours of operation is likely to have on any place likely to be regularly frequented by children—

that adjoins the development, or

that can be viewed from the development, or

from which a person can view the development,

whether the operation of the premises is likely to cause a disturbance in the neighbourhood—

because of its size, location, hours of operation or number of employees, or

taking into account the cumulative impact of the premises along with other sex services premises operating in the neighbourhood during similar hours,

whether the operation of the premises will be likely to interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood.