State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021

The object of this section is to identify development standards for particular matters relating to development for the purposes of hostels and residential care facilities that, if complied with, prevent the consent authority from requiring more onerous standards for the matters.

The following are non-discretionary development standards in relation to development for the purposes of hostels or residential care facilities—

no building has a height of more than 9.5m, excluding servicing equipment on the roof of a building,

servicing equipment on the roof of a building, which results in the building having a height of more than 9.5m—

is fully integrated into the design of the roof or contained and suitably screened from view from public places, and

is limited to an area of no more than 20% of the surface area of the roof, and

does not result in the building having a height of more than 11.5m,

the density and scale of the buildings when expressed as a floor space ratio is 1:1 or less,

internal and external communal open spaces with a total area of at least—

for a hostel—8m² for every bed, or

for a residential care facility—10m² for every bed,

at least 15m² of landscaped area for every bed,

a deep soil zone on at least 15% of the site area, where each deep soil zone has minimum dimensions of 6m and, if practicable, at least 65% of the deep soil zone is located at the rear of the site,

for a hostel—at least 1 parking space for every 10 beds in the hostel,

for a residential care facility—at least 1 parking space for every 15 beds in the facility,

at least 1 parking space for every 2 employees who are on duty at the same time,

at least 1 parking space for the purpose of ambulance parking.

Subsection (2)(a)–(c) do not apply to land in Zones R3 and R4 in a low and mid rise housing area, within the meaning of Chapter 6.