• Exempt and Complying DCP (PDF)

Exempt development under Council’s DCP for Exempt and Complying Development 2000

Exempt development is characterised as minor development that has minimal environmental impact on neighbourhood amenity.

Exempt development does not require consent provided all prescribed standards for the development are met.

Council's DCP for Exempt and Complying Development (PDF) identifies 53 types of development as exempt development.

However, many of the exempt development types in Council’s DCP no longer apply as they overlap with exempt development in the State Codes SEPP or the SEPP for Infrastructure 2007.

Under the State Codes SEPP this is referred to as the “same development” (clause 1.10). When this occurs, the controls in the Codes SEPP prevail over Council’s DCP.

This means that only 13 of the exempt development types in Council’s DCP continue to apply. Examples are:

• Advertising structures and signs
• Events
  

If you think your development is exempt development under Council’s DCP you must refer to:

• Section 2.2 for the General development criteria for exempt development
• Section 2.3 Table 1 - Exempt development which sets out the exempt development criteria that apply to each development type