Minor Change Request report INCE Arakoon · MCU19/0008.02

Minor Change Test

An assessment against the meaning of minor change and a response about the proposed
application is provide below. The Planning Act 2016 defines a minor change as a change
to the approval that:

i. would not result in a substantially different development*;
      (*In determining whether the proposed change would result in substantially different development, the
      assessment manager or referral agency must consider the individual circumstances of the development,
      in the context of the change proposed.)


Schedule 1 of the Development Assessment Rules set outs provisions for a substantially
different development. A change may be considered to result in a substantially different
development if the proposed change results in any of the following outlined in Table 1
below.

Table 1 - Substantially different development

   Provisions of Schedule 1 of the DA                     Response
   Rules
    (a) Involves a new use                                There is no new use proposed onsite
      (b) results in the application applying to          No new parcels of land are introduced
          a new parcel of land; or
      (c) dramatically changes the built form             The built form including the footprint
          in terms of scale, bulk and                     generally remains unchanged This
          appearance; or                                  minor change does not dramatically
                                                          change the scale, bulk, or appearance.
      (d) changes the ability of the proposed             A dwelling house.
          development to operate as
          intended; or
      (e) removes a component that is                     A dwelling house.
          integral to the operation of the
          development; or
      (f) significantly impacts on traffic flow           A dwelling house.
          and the transport network, such as
          increasing traffic to the site; or
      (g) introduces new impacts or increase              No new impacts or the severity of
          the severity of known impacts; or               impacts is likely to result for the new
                                                          floor layout and amended elevations.
      (h) removes an incentive or offset                  Does not remove an offset or incentive
          component that would have                       components of the development.
          balanced a negative impact of the
          development; or
      (i) impacts on infrastructure provisions.           There is no additional impacts on
                                                          infrastructure.

Given the above, the proposed change to the existing approval is a minor change in
accordance with Schedule 2 of the Planning Act 2016 and Schedule 1 of the Development
Assessment Rules.