Minor Change Letter - 100988 RAL · RAL25/0004.01

3.0       COMPLIANCE WITH DEFINITION OF ‘MINOR CHANGE’ (SCHEDULE 2 OF PA
          2016)

Schedule 2 of the Planning Act 2016 provides a definition of a ‘minor change’, which
contains a series of criteria to determine what constitutes a ‘minor change’ to an approval
detailed as follows:

minor change means a change that—

      (b) for a development approval—
          (i) would not result in substantially different 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 development in the application; or
               (B) referral to a referral agency, other than to the chief executive, if there were
                   no referral agencies for the development application; or
               (C) referral to extra referral agencies, other than to the chief executive; or
               (D) a referral agency to assess the 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 notification was not required for the development
                   application.

An assessment of the proposed change with reference to the above criteria is provided as
follows:

          (i) (The change) would not result in a substantially different development

When determining what constitutes a substantially different development, Schedule 1:
Substantially Different Development of the Development Assessment Rules applies.
Schedule 1 provides a list of criteria that may constitute a substantially different
development as follows:

          Involves a new use; or
          Results in the application applying to a new parcel of land; or
          Dramatically changes the built form in terms of scale, bulk and appearance; or
          Changes the ability of the proposed development to operate as intended; or
          Removes a component that is integral to the operation of the development; or
          Significantly impacts on traffic flow and the transport network, such as increasing
           traffic to the site; or
          Introduces new impacts or increase the severity of known impacts; or
          Removes an incentive or offset component that would have balanced a negative
           impact of the development; or
          Impacts on infrastructure provisions.

An assessment is provided as follows:




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