Development consent required for caravan parks
131 Development consent required for caravan parks
Development for the purposes of a caravan park may be carried out only with the development consent of the Council.
Before granting development consent to the use of land for the purposes of a caravan park, a Council must determine—
the number of sites (if any) within that land that the Council considers are suitable for long-term residence, within the meaning of the Local Government (Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds) Transitional Regulation 1993, and
the number of sites (if any) within that land that the Council considers are not suitable for long-term residence, but are suitable for short-term residence, within the meaning of that Regulation.
A Council must not grant development consent to the use of land for the purposes of a caravan park unless it imposes as a condition of that consent a condition specifying the maximum number of sites (if any) within that land that may be used for long-term residence.
The holder of an approval under Part 1 of Chapter 7 of the Local Government Act 1993 to operate a caravan park or camping ground on land must not, without the development consent of the Council, allow a person to occupy a site within that land—
for a continuous period of more than 3 months, except as provided by paragraph (b), or
for a continuous period longer than the period (if any) for which the person is allowed to be accommodated within the land by an extension that has been granted under clause 19(6) of the Local Government (Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds) Transitional Regulation 1993,
if such a use of that site was not lawful under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 when this Part commenced.
Except as provided by subsection (4), nothing in this Part or any other environmental planning instrument requires separate development consent to be obtained for the installation or placement of a moveable dwelling on land on which development for the purposes of a caravan park is being lawfully carried out.
This section does not apply to any land that is authorised to be used for the purposes of a manufactured home estate by a development consent granted pursuant to Chapter 3, Part 8 or dedicated or reserved under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.
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