Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan 2015

The objectives of this clause are as follows—

to ensure that lot sizes and dimensions are able to accommodate development consistent with relevant development controls and minimise risk to life and property from environmental hazards, including bush fires,

to ensure that lot sizes and dimensions allow development to be sited to protect natural or cultural features including heritage items, remnant vegetation, habitat and waterways, and provide for generous landscaping to support the amenity of adjoining properties and the desired character of the area,

to ensure that subdivision of low density residential sites reflects and reinforces the predominant subdivision pattern of the area.

This clause applies to a subdivision of any land shown on the Lot Size Map that requires development consent and that is carried out after the commencement of this Plan.

The size of any lot resulting from a subdivision of land to which this clause applies is not to be less than the minimum size shown on the Lot Size Map in relation to that land.

Development consent must not be granted for the subdivision of land in any of the following zones unless the subdivision would result in each lot, other than a battle-axe lot, having a width of a least 18 metres along a line that is 12 metres from the street frontage of the lot—

Zone R2 Low Density Residential,

Zone C3 Environmental Management,

Zone C4 Environmental Living.

Development consent must not be granted for the subdivision of land in any of the following zones unless the subdivision would result in each lot created having a width and depth of at least 24 metres—

Zone R3 Medium Density Residential,

Zone R4 High Density Residential.

Despite subclauses (3), (3A) and (3B), if the erection of a dual occupancy (detached) is permissible on a lot under Schedule 1, development consent may be granted for the subdivision (after the dual occupancy (detached) has been erected) of that lot if—

each resulting lot would have an area of at least 550 square metres, and

each resulting lot would contain one of the dwellings.

This clause does not apply in relation to the subdivision of any land—

by the registration of a strata plan or strata plan of subdivision under the Strata Schemes Development Act 2015, or

by any kind of subdivision under the Community Land Development Act 2021.

If a lot is a battle-axe lot, the area of its access handle is not to be included in calculating the size of the lot.

In this clause—