Minor Change Request report elm st - july 24

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 Rules          Response
    (a) Involves a new use                         There is no new use proposed onsite
      (b) results in the application applying to   No new parcel of land is introduced
          a new parcel of land; or
      (c) dramatically changes the built form in   No changes
          terms of scale, bulk and appearance;
          or
      (d) changes the ability of the proposed      No change to the use approved.
          development to operate as intended;
          or
      (e) removes a component that is integral     No essential component of the
          to the operation of the development;     development is proposed to be
          or                                       removed.
      (f) significantly impacts on traffic flow    The proposal does not trigger any
          and the transport network, such as       additional traffic or car parking to that
          increasing traffic to the site; or       originally approved.
      (g) introduces new impacts or increase       No new impacts or the severity of
          the severity of known impacts; or        impacts is likely to result from the plan
                                                   modifications.
      (h) removes an incentive or offset           Does not remove an offset or
          component that would have balanced       incentive     components        of    the
          a negative impact of the                 development.
          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.