Crown Land Management Act 2016

This clause applies for the purposes of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 and any instrument made under that Act and has effect despite anything in that Act or any instrument made under that Act.

The Minister is taken to have given written consent on behalf of the Crown (as the owner of Crown land under a continued perpetual lease) for the lessee of that land to make a development application relating to any of the following kinds of development—

without limiting paragraph (g), the repair, maintenance, restoration or renovation of an existing building on the land,

the erection, repair, maintenance or replacement of a fence on the land,

the carrying out of development on the land that is consistent with the purposes for which the lease has been granted,

the erection, repair, maintenance or replacement of signage on the land,

the erection, repair, maintenance or replacement of a temporary structure on the land,

the installation, repair, maintenance or replacement of services on the land,

the erection, repair, maintenance or replacement of any of the following on the land—

a building or other structure on the land that is permitted under the lease,

a toilet block,

a structure for the protection of the environment,

the carrying out on the land of any other development of a kind prescribed by the regulations.

Subclause (2) does not apply in relation to any development that involves any of the following—

the subdivision of land,

the demolition of a building,

the carrying out of remediation works (including the extraction of materials that belong to the Crown or excavations in connection with those works),

the carrying out of development of a kind excluded by the regulations.

Any regulations made for the purposes of subclause (3) (d) may exclude the whole or a part of a kind of development specified by subclause (2).

To avoid doubt, the Minister’s consent on behalf of the Crown (as the owner of Crown land under a continued perpetual lease) to lodgment of a development application in respect of that land is required for the carrying out of any development to which subclause (2) does not apply.