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App D - Minor Change and Substantially Different Development Tests
Minor Change Application
Appendix D. Minor Change and Substantially
Different Development Tests
A Change application may be for ‘Minor changes’ (s. 81 of the Act) or ‘Other changes’ (s. 82 of the Act).
A ‘Minor change’ is defined within Schedule 2 of the Act and an assessment of the proposed changes
against the various aspects of the Minor change definition is provided in the table below.
Table 6.1: Assessment against Minor Change Criteria
No. # Matter Review
“minor change means a change that— …
(a) for a development approval—
(i) would not result in The changes do not result in substantially different development as
substantially different outlined in Section 6.2.1 below.
development; and
(ii) if a development application for the development, including the change, were made when the
change application is made would not cause—
(A) the inclusion of prohibited The changes do not cause the development to include any
development in the prohibited development as outlined in Section 6.2.2 below.
application; or
(B) referral to a referral agency, The original application did not require referral to any referral
other than to the chief agencies.
executive, if there were no A review of the Act and the Planning Regulation 2017 determined
referral agencies for the that referral of this Change application to the State Assessment and
development application; or Referral Agency (SARA) is not required.
(C) referral to extra referral Refer above.
agencies, other than to the
chief executive; or
(D) a referral agency to assess the Refer above.
application against, or have
regard to, matters prescribed
by regulation under section
55(2), other than matters the
referral agency must have
assessed the application
against, or have had regard to,
when the application was
made; or
(E) public notification if public The original development application was subject to Code
notification was not required assessment and did not require public notification. The
for the development development inclusive of the proposed change remains Code
application” assessable pursuant to the Noosa Plan 2020 and therefore public
notification is not triggered.
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Minor Change Application
Part 4 of Schedule 1 of the Development Assessment Rules (the ‘DA Rules’) specifies what may
constitute ‘substantially different development’ within the context of the meaning of a minor change to
a development approval. An assessment of the proposed changes against the various aspects of the
‘substantially different development’ definition is provided in the table below.
Table 6.2: Part 4 of Schedule 1 of the DA Rules – Substantially Different Development Test
No. # Criteria Review
(a) Involves a new use. No new uses are proposed.
As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
(b) Results in the application The extent of the site has not changed.
applying to a new parcel of As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
land.
(c) Dramatically changes the built The proposal does not dramatically change the built form in terms
form in terms of scale, bulk of scale, bulk, or appearance.
and appearance. As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
(d) Changes the ability of the There are no changes proposed that would affect the ability of the
proposed development to development to operate as intended.
operate as intended. As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
(e) Removes a component that is There is no component being removed that is integral to the
integral to the operation of the operation of the development.
development. As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
(f) Significantly impacts on traffic No significant additional impacts upon the broader traffic network
flow and the transport will occur due to the proposed changes.
network, such as increasing As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
traffic to the site.
(g) Introduces new impacts or No new impacts are proposed and no increase in the severity of
increase the severity of known known impacts are anticipated.
impacts. As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
(h) Removes an incentive or No incentives or offsets exist or shall be varied as part of the
offset component that would proposed works.
have balanced a negative As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
impact of the development.
(i) Impacts on infrastructure The proposed changes do not impact the infrastructure.
provisions. As such, the amended development complies with this criterion.
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