State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021

The aims of this Part are—

to facilitate the establishment of manufactured home estates as a contemporary form of medium density residential development that provides an alternative to traditional housing arrangements, and

to provide immediate development opportunities for manufactured home estates on the commencement of this Part, and

to encourage the provision of affordable housing in well designed estates, and

to ensure that manufactured home estates are situated only in suitable locations and not on land having important resources or having landscape, scenic or ecological qualities that should be preserved, and

to ensure that manufactured home estates are adequately serviced and have access to essential community facilities and services, and

to protect the environment surrounding manufactured home estates, and

to provide measures which will facilitate security of tenure for residents of manufactured home estates.

The strategies by which those aims are to be achieved are—

by allowing, with development consent, manufactured home estates on certain land on which caravan parks are permitted if the land meets the suitable locational criteria stipulated in this Part (which it would not do if, for example, it contains important resources, is subject to natural or man-made risks or has sensitive environmental or ecological features), and

by applying this Part to areas where there is likely to be a demand and suitable opportunities for the development of manufactured home estates, and

by allowing manufactured home estates to be subdivided with development consent either by way of leases for terms of up to 20 years or under the Community Land Development Act 1989, and

by enabling the Minister for Planning to exclude from this Part any land that is subject to a local environmental plan prepared in accordance with the principles of a direction issued in conjunction with this Part under section 117 of the Act.