General requirements for complying development
2.22 General requirements for complying development
This section applies to any development that this Chapter provides is complying development.
To be complying development, the development must—
not be exempt development under this Chapter, and
be permissible, with consent, under an environmental planning instrument applying to the land on which the development is carried out, and
meet the relevant provisions of the Building Code of Australia, and
must be carried out in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Blue Book, and
before the complying development certificate is issued, have written consent from the relevant roads authority, if required by the Roads Act 1993—
for each opening of a public road required by the development, and
to operate or store machinery, materials or waste required by the development on a road or footpath reserve, and
if it is the alteration or erection of improvements on land in a mine subsidence district within the meaning of the Mine Subsidence Compensation Act 1961, have the prior approval of the Mine Subsidence Board, and
Note.
Information about mine subsidence is information that is a prescribed matter for the purpose of a planning certificate under section 10.7(2) of the Act.
not involve clearing vegetation with the meaning of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021, Chapter 2, unless the clearing is authorised by and done in accordance with that policy, and
not be carried out within 1m of any public sewer, if the development comprises the erection of a building, except with the written approval of the authority that has management or control of that sewer, and
not involve the removal of asbestos, unless that removal is undertaken in accordance with Code of practice: How to safely remove asbestos published by SafeWork NSW in December 2022.
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