Appendix 4 - Planning Scheme Code Responses

Performance Outcomes                             Acceptable Outcomes                                Response
Growth management

Rearrangement of Lot Boundaries
PO26                                        AO26                                                  While it is acknowledged that the proposed lot sizes do
Development provides that the rearrangement The rearrangement of lot boundaries results is an not comply with the minimum lot size requirements, it is
of lot boundaries is an improvement on the improvement to the existing situation whereby the noted that the existing lot sizes were less than the
existing situation.                         size and dimensions of proposed lots comply more minimum area for the rural zone. It is also important to
                                            fully with Table 9.5.1.4 Minimum lot size and note the resulting lot sizes ae in keeping with the
                                            dimensions and at least one of the following is character of the immediate surrounding area. While the
                                            achieved:                                             lots are zoned rural, the primary uses on the subject land
                                                                                                  and the surrounding areas is ‘rural residential’ with only
                                                 (a) the rearrangement of lots remedies an small-scale agricultural or horticultural uses.
                                                     existing boundary encroachment by a
                                                     building or structure;                       The purpose of the realignment is to improve land
                                                 (b) the rearranged lots will be made more management through the consolidation of the more
                                                     regular in shape;                            productive and long-established grazing parts into one
                                                 (c) access is provided to a lot that previously property.
                                                     had no access or an unsuitable access;
                                                 (d) the rearranged lots better meet the overall Furthermore, there is a significant improvement from an
                                                     outcomes for the zone and the local plan environmental perspective that now sees the waterway
                                                     area in which the site is situated;          and associate riparian vegetation contained wholly on
                                                 (e) the rearrangement of lots provides for a proposed Lot 6.
                                                     significant     improvement         in rural
                                                     productivity; or
                                                 (f) the rearrangement of lots results in a
                                                     significant improvement in the protection
                                                     of environmental values.
If involving a standard format lot with common property such as requiring a community management scheme under the Body Corporate and Community
Management Act 1997
PO27
Community title subdivision only occurs once No acceptable outcome provided                         N/A
construction of approved buildings on site is
completed.

                                                                                                                       Appendix 4 – Planning Scheme Code Responses
                                                                                                       Reconfiguring of a Lot – Boundary Realignment (2 Lots into 2 Lots)
                                                                                                                  51 Hamersley Lane, Lake Macdonald – Lot 5 RP203483
                                                                                                                  81 Hamersley Lane, Lake Macdonald – Lot 6 RP203483