2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

City Plan.

Short-term accommodation is primarily supported in centre zones or located near tourist, cultural or
shopping and leisure facilities. There are no public notification requirements for the application process for
sites in centre zones, higher density residential areas and in some low-medium density areas located on
arterial or suburban roads.

City Plan primarily ensures that adjoining residents or businesses are not significantly impacted by the use. If
a residential lease is for a longer period (over three consecutive months) the use is defined as a dwelling
house, dual occupancy or a multiple dwelling, depending on the number of separate households on the
premises. If the residential use involves individual rooms leased separately to different people it is defined as
rooming accommodation.




BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL – ROOMING ACCOMMODATION

Definition

Brisbane City Plan 2014 defines rooming accommodation as a use of premises for the accommodation of one
or more households where each resident:

       has a right to occupy one or more rooms;
       does not have a right to occupy the whole of the premises in which the rooms are situated;
       may be provided with separate facilities for private use;
       may share communal facilities or communal space with one or more of the other residents.

Rooming accommodation may include:

       rooms not in the same building on site;
       provision of a food or other service;
       on-site management or staff and associated accommodation.

Examples of rooming accommodation include a boarding house, monastery, hostel and off-site student
accommodation.

It does not include a hospice, community residence, dwelling house, short-term accommodation or multiple
dwelling.

A house rented under a rooming accommodation agreement

A house leased by several people each under a rooming accommodation agreement is considered several
discrete households under the Queensland Planning Provisions and the Residential Tenancies and Rooming
Accommodation Act 2008.

Under City Plan, a dwelling house is a premises that is occupied by one household. A house occupied by
tenants under a rooming accommodation agreement cannot be defined as a dwelling house under City Plan.

The building classification of a premises rented under a rooming accommodation agreement will be required
to be upgraded under the National Construction Code to a Class 1b structure. Additionally, City Plan has
similar requirements.

Preferred locations

City Plan enables rooming accommodation for a maximum of five occupants in the Low density and




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