Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022

The objective of this clause is to minimise land use conflicts and adverse amenity impact 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 for the purposes of restricted premises or sex services premises unless, when measured from the boundary of the lot on which the premises will be used, the development will be located—

more than 200m from land in a residential zone or Zone RE1 Public Recreation, and

more than 200m from a place of public worship, hospital, school, centre-based child care facility, community facility or recreation area, and

more than 50m from a railway station entrance, bus stop, taxi rank, ferry terminal or similar public utility undertaking.

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—

whether the operation of the restricted premises or sex services premises will be likely to cause a disturbance in the neighbourhood because of the size, location, hours of operation, clients or employees, or other people working in the premises,

whether the operation of the restricted premises or sex services premises will be likely to interfere with the amenity of the neighbourhood,

whether the operation of the restricted premises or sex services premises will be likely to cause a disturbance in the neighbourhood, taking into account the number of sex services premises already operating in the neighbourhood and involving similar hours of operation,

the impact of the development and the hours of operation on a place likely to be regularly frequented by children for educational, recreational or cultural activities that can be viewed from the development,

the cumulative impact of the number of sex services premises operating in the neighbourhood.