BSDCP 2012 Development Control Plan Review

Council resolved to place on public exhibition draft amendments to BSDCP2012.

The main amendments are:

• Chapter 3 – Amendments to the Ballina Heights Structure Plan in response to a landowner request to remove the area previously designated for a retirement village, to be replaced by standard residential lots.
• Chapter 4 – Additions to Section 3.1.3, clarifying that in relation to measurement of building lines on properties adjacent to a foreshore/waterway feature or asset, the building line is measured from the lot boundary fronting that feature or asset.
• Amendment to the Fig Tree Hill Neighbourhood Map to include lots fronting Coopers Close and to notes in Chapter 2 (Section 3.11.3) and Chapter 7 (Section 4.2) to advise that dual occupancy development is not supported in the mapped area due to insufficient sewerage capacity.
• Chapter 7 – Addition of a new section on agritourism, addressing the recent State Government legislative amendments which facilitate farm stay accommodation, farm experience premises, and farm gate activities in all rural zones throughout the State.
• Various chapters – update references to business and industrial zones and environmental protection zones to reflect the State Government ‘Employment Zones’ reform, and the renaming of ‘Environmental’ zones to ‘Conservation’ zones.

Download the documents for a copy of each affected DCP chapter with proposed amendments highlighted in yellow.

Please have your say on the Ballina Shire Development Control Plan 2012 by completing the feedback form below.

Submissions close Friday 28 April 2023.