Planning Report Minor Change Bottlebrush · MCU22/0087.01

Changes were made to the plans through the negotiated approval process.

Minor Change Test

PIVOTAL

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 anew use

There is no new use proposed onsite

 

(b)

results in the applicationap plying to a new parcel of
land; or

No new parcel of land is introduced

 

(c)

dramatically changes the built form in terms of
scale, bulk and appearance; or

Although the design changes slightly, the building is
sited in the same location as approved with the
same height, setbacks, plot ratio and site cover. The
modification to the approved plans do not
dramatically change the scale, bulk or appearance
of the development.

 

changes the ability of the proposed development to
operate as intended; or

No change to the use approved.

 

removes a component that is integral to the
operation of the development; or

No essential component of the development is
proposed to be removed.

 

significantly impacts on traffic flow and the transport
network, such as increasing traffic to the site; or

The proposal does not trigger any additional traffic
or car parking to that originally approved.

 

introduces new impacts or increase the severity of
known impacts; or

No newimpacts or the severity of impacts is likely to
result from the plan modifications.

 

removes an incentive or offset component that
would have balanced a negative impact of the
development; or

Does notremove an offset or incentive components
of the development.

 

 

impacts on infrastructure provisions.

 

Thereis 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.