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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