Schedule 1 - Definitions

• Adult store
• Agricultural supplies store
• Animal husbandry
• Animal keeping
• Aquaculture
• Bar
• Bulk landscape supplies
• Caretaker’s accommodation
• Car wash
• Cemetery
• Child care centre
• Club
• Community care centre
• Community residence
• Community use
• Crematorium
• Cropping
• Dual occupancy
• Dwelling house
• Dwelling unit
• Educational establishment
• Emergency services
• Environment facility
• Food and drink outlet
• Function facility
• Funeral parlour
• Garden centre

• Hardware and trade supplies
• Health care services
• High impact industry
• Home based business
• Hospital
• Hotel
• Indoor sport and recreation
• Intensive animal industry
• Intensive horticulture
• Low impact industry
• Major electricity infrastructure
• Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility
• Market
• Medium impact industry
• Motor sport facility
• Multiple dwelling
• Nature-based tourism
• Nightclub entertainment facility
• Non-resident workforce accommodation
• Office
• Outdoor sales
• Outdoor sport and recreation
• Outstation
• Park
• Parking Station
• Permanent plantation
• Place of worship

• Relocatable home park
• Renewable energy facility
• Research and Technology industry
• Residential care facility
• Retirement facility
• Roadside stall
• Rooming accommodation
• Rural industry
• Rural workers’ accommodation
• Sales office
• Service industry
• Service station
• Shop
• Shopping centre
• Short-term accommodation
• Showroom
• Special industry
• Substation
• Telecommunications facility
• Theatre
• Tourist attraction
• Tourist Park
• Transport depot
• Utility installation
• Veterinary services
• Warehouse
• Wholesale nursery
• Winery

1. sexually explicit materials; or
2. products and devices that are  associated with, or used in, a sexual practice or activity.

• the sale, display or hire of printed or recorded matter (not of a sexually explicit nature) or
• the sale or display of underwear or lingerie or
• the sale or display of an article or thing primarily concerned with or used in association with a medically recognised purpose

Agricultural supplies store means the use of premises for the sale of agricultural supplies and products.

Examples of agricultural supplies and products – 
Animal feed, bulk veterinary supplies, chemicals, farm clothing, fertilisers, irrigation materials, saddlery, seeds

Animal husbandry means the use of premises for—

1. producing animals or animal products on native or improved pastures or vegetation; or
2. a yard, stable, temporary holding facility or machinery repairs and servicing, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a)

Examples of animal husbandry-—
Cattle stud, grazing of livestock, non-feedlot dairy

1. boarding, breeding or training animals; or
2. a holding facility or machinery repairs and servicing, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Bar means the use of premises, with seating for 60 or less people, for—

1. selling liquor for consumption on the premises; or
2. an entertainment activity, or preparing and selling food and drink for consumption on the premises, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Club means the use of premises for—

1. An association established for social, literary, political, sporting, athletic or other similar purposes; or
2. Preparing and selling food and drink, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. means the use of premises for
2. does not include the use of premises for providing accommodation to members of the public.

Community residence—  

1. means the use of premises for residential accommodation for—
   1. no more than 6 persons requiring assistance or support with daily living needs; and
   2. no more than 1 support worker; and
2. Includes a building or structure that is reasonably associated with the use in paragraph (a).

1. providing artistic, social or cultural facilities or community services to the public; or
2. preparing and selling food and drink, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a)

1. growing and harvesting plants, or plant material, that are cultivated in soil, for commercial purposes; or
2. harvesting, storing or packing plants or plant material grown on the premises, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a); or
3. repairing and servicing machinery used on the premises, if the use in ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. means a residential use of premises for 2 households involving
   1. 2 dwellings (whether attached or detached) on a single lot or 2 dwellings (whether attached or detached) on separate lots that share a common property; and
   2. any domestic outbuilding associated with the dwellings; but
2. does not include a residential use of premises that involves a secondary dwelling.

Dwelling house means a residential use of premises involving—

1. 1 dwelling for a single household and any domestic outbuildings associated with the dwelling; or
2. 1 dwelling for a single household, a secondary dwelling, and any domestic outbuildings associated with either dwelling.

Educational establishment means the use of premises for—

1. training and instruction to impart knowledge and develop skills; or
2. student accommodation, before or after school care, or vacation care ,if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Examples of an education establishment—
college, outdoor education centre, primary school, secondary school, special education facility, technical institute, university

1. essential emergency services; or
2. disaster management services; or
3. management support facilities for the services.

1. means the use of premises for a facility for the appreciation, conservation or interpretation of an area of cultural, environmental or heritage value; but
2. does not include the use of premises to provide accommodation for tourists and travellers.

1. preparing and selling food and drink for consumption on or off the premises; or
2. providing liquor for consumption on the premises, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. receptions or functions; or
2. preparing and providing food and liquor for consumption on the premises as part of the reception or function.

Funeral parlour—

1. means the use of premises for—
   1. arranging and conducting funerals, memorials and other similar events; or
   2. a mortuary; or
   3. storing and preparing bodies for burial or cremation; but
2. does not include the use of premises for the burial or cremation of bodies.

Garden centre means the use of premises for—

1. selling pants; or
2. selling gardening and landscape products and supplies that are mainly in pre-packaged form; or
3. a food and drink outlet is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Health care services means the use of premises for medical purposes, paramedical purposes, alternative health therapies or general health care, if overnight accommodation is not provided on the premises.

Examples of a health care service—
dental clinic, medical centre, physiotherapy clinic

1. either of the following apply—
   1. the use involves outdoor activities carried out between 6p.m. and 7a.m.;
   2. measures are required on the premises to control the risk of emissions and impacts from dangerous goods stored as part of the use; and
2. the impacts of the use on other premises, or road or infrastructure networks, are within the upper and lower limits for the use stated in a local planning instrument applying to the premises.

Abattoirs, concrete batching plant, boiler making and engineering and metal foundry

Note – additional examples may be shown in SC1.1.2 industry thresholds.

1. the medical or surgical care or treatment of patients, whether or not the care or treatment requires overnight accommodation; or
2. providing accommodation for patients; or
3. providing accommodation for employees, or any other use, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a)

1. means the use of premises for—
   1. selling liquor for consumption on the premises; or
   2. a dining or entertainment activity, or short-term accommodation, if the use is ancillary to the use in subparagraph (i); but
2. does not include a bar.

Indoor sport and recreation means the use of premises for a leisure, sport or recreation activity conducted wholly or mainly indoors.

Examples of indoor sport and recreation—
amusement parlour, bowling alley, gymnasium, squash court

1. means the use of premises for— 
   1. the intensive production of animals or animal products, in an enclosure, that requires food and water to be provided mechanically or by hand; or
   2. storing and packing feed and produce, if the use is ancillary to the use in subparagraph (i); but
2. does not include the cultivation of aquatic animals.

Intensive horticulture— 

1. means the use of premises for— 
   1. the intensive production of plants or plant material carried out indoors on imported media; or
   2. the intensive production of plants or plant material carried out outside using artificial lights or containers; or
   3. storing and packing plants or plant material grown on the premises, if the use is ancillary to a use in subparagraph (i) or (ii); but
2. does not include the cultivation of aquatic plants.

Examples of intensive horticulture—
greenhouse, hydroponic farm, mushroom farm

1. the activity is carried out mainly indoors and mainly between 7am and 6pm; and
2. measure are not required on the premises to control the risk of emissions and impacts from dangerous goods stored as part of the use; and
3. the impact of the use on other premises, or road or infrastructure networks, does not exceed the limits for the use stated in a local planning instrument applying to the premises.

Repairing motor vehicles, fitting and turning workshop

Note—additional examples may be shown in SC1.1.2 industry thresholds.

Major electricity infrastructure

major electricity infrastructure—

1. means the use of premises for—
   1. a transmission grid or supply network; or
   2. a telecommunication facility, if the use is ancillary to the use in subparagraph (i); but
2. does not include the use of premises for a supply network or private electricity works stated in the Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 6 [Development local categorising instrument is prohibited…], section 26(5), unless the use involves—
   1. a new zone substation or bulk supply substation; or
   2. the augmentation of a zone substation or bulk supply substation that significantly increases the input or output standard voltage.

Major sport, recreation and entertainment facility means the use of premises for large-scale events (major sporting, recreation conference or entertainment events, for example).
 

Examples of a major sport, recreation and entertainment facility—
Convention centre, exhibition centre, horse racing facility, sports stadium

Market means the use of premises on a regular basis for— 

1. selling goods to the public mainly from temporary structures (stalls, booths or trestle tables, for example); or 
2. providing entertainment, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. any of the following apply—
   1. the activity is carried out between 6pm and 7am, but not outdoors;
   2. the activity involves the storage of dangerous goods and requires measures on the premises to control the risk of emissions and impacts from dangerous goods stored as part of the use; and
2. the impacts of the use on other premises, or road or infrastructure networks, are within the upper and lower limits for the use stated in a local planning instrument applying to the premises.

Spray painting and surface coating, wooden and laminated product manufacturing (including cabinet making, joining, timber truss making or wood working)

Note – additional examples may be shown in SC1.1.2 industry thresholds.

1. Organised or recreational motor sports; or
2. Facilities for spectators (stands, amenities or food and drink outlets, for example).

Nature-based tourism means the use of premises for a tourism activity, including accommodation for tourists, for the appreciation, conservation or interpretation of—

1. an area of environmental, cultural or heritage value; or
2. a local ecosystem; or
3. the natural environment.

Examples of nature-based tourism—
Environmentally responsibly accommodation facilities including cabins, huts, lodges and tents

Nightclub entertainment facility means the use of premises for—

1. providing entertainment that is cabaret, dancing or music; or
2. selling liquor and food for consumption on the premises; if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Non-resident workforce accommodation means the use of premises for—

1. accommodation of non-resident workers; or
2. recreation and entertainment facilities for persons residing at the premises and their visitors, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. means the use of premises for—
   1. providing an administrative, financial, management or secretarial service or function; or
   2. the practice of a profession; or
   3. providing business or professional advice or services; but
2. does not include premises used for making, selling or hiring goods.

1. displaying, selling, hiring or leasing vehicles, boats, caravans, machinery, equipment or other similar products, if the use is mainly conducted outdoors; or
2. repairing, servicing, selling or fitting accessories for the products stated in paragraph (a), if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Outdoor sport and recreation means the use of premises for—

1. a recreation or sporting activity that is carried on outdoors and requires areas of open space; or 
2. providing and selling food and drink, change room facilities or storage facilities, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Examples of outdoor sport and recreation—
cricket oval, driving range, golf course, swimming pool, tennis court

1. cultural or recreation activities by Aboriginal people or Torres Strait Islanders; or
2. facilities for short-term or long-term camping activities, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Park means the use of premises, accessible to the public free of charge, for sport, recreation and leisure activities and facilities. 

Place of worship means the use of premises for—

1. organised worship and other religious activities; or, 
2. social, education or charitable activities, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. the arrival and departure of vessels; or
2. the movement of passengers or goods on or off vessels; or
3. storing, servicing, maintaining or repairing vessels; or 
4. ancillary uses that directly service the needs of passengers of the vessels. 

Relocatable home park means the use of premises for—

1. relocatable dwellings for long-term residential accommodation; or
2. amenity facilities, food and drink outlets, a manager’s residence, or recreation facilities for the exclusive use of residents, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. means the use of premises for the generation of electricity or energy from a renewable energy source (sources of bio-energy, geothermal energy, hydropower, ocean energy, solar energy or wind energy, for example); but
2. does not include the use of premises to generate electricity or energy that is to be used only on the premises.

Research and technology industry means the use of premises for an innovative or emerging industry that involves designing and researching, assembling, manufacturing, maintaining, storing or testing machinery or equipment.

Examples of research and technology industry—
aeronautical engineering, biotechnology industries, computer component manufacturing, computer server facilities, energy industries, medical laboratories

1. can not live independently; and
2. require regular nursing or personal care.

Retirement facility means a residential use of premises for— 

1. accommodation for older members of the community, or retired persons, in independent living units or services units; or
2. amenity and community facilities, a manager’s residence, health care and support services, preparing food and drink or staff accommodation, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Rooming accommodation means the use of premises for—

1. residential accommodation, if each resident—
   1. has a right to occupy 1 or more rooms on the premises; and 
   2. does not have a right to occupy the whole of the premises; and 
   3. does not occupy a self-contained unit, as defined in the Residential Tenancies and Rooming Accommodation Act 2008, schedule 2, or has only limited facilities available for private use; and
   4. shares other rooms, facilities, furniture or equipment outside of the resident’s room with 1 or more other residents, whether or not the rooms, facilities, furniture or equipment are on the same or different premises; or
2. a manager’s residence, an office or providing food or other services to residents, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Examples of rooming accommodation—
boarding house, hostel, monastery, off-site student accommodation

Rural industry means the use of premises for— 

1. storing, processing or packaging products from a rural use; or
2. selling products from a rural use, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. the premises, and the premises where the rural activity is carried out, are owned by the same person; and
2. the employees are not non-resident workers.

1. are for sale or proposed to be sold; or
2. can be won as a prize in a competition. 

1. does not result in off-site air, noise or odour emissions; and
2. is suitable for location with other non-industrial uses.

Service station means the use of premises for—

1. Selling fuel (petrol, liquid petroleum gas, automotive distillate or alternative fuels, for example); or
2. A food and drink outlet, shop, trailer, hire, or maintaining, repairing, servicing or washing vehicles, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Shop means the use of premises for—
displaying, selling or hiring goods; or providing personal services or betting to the public.

Examples of a shop—
betting agency, corner store, department store, discount variety store, hair dressing salon, liquor store, supermarket

Short-term accommodation—

1. means the use of premises for
   1. providing accommodation of less than 3 consecutive months to tourists or travellers; or
   2. a manager’s residence, office, or recreation facilities for the exclusive use of guests, if the use is ancillary to the use in subparagraph (i); but
2. does not include a hotel, nature-based tourism, resort complex or tourist park.

1. are of a related product line; and
2. a size, shape or weight that requires—
   1. a large area for handling, display or storage; and
   2. direct vehicle access to the building that contains the goods by members of the public to enable the loading and unloading of the goods. 

1. either of the following apply—
   1. the use involves outdoor activities carried out between 6pm and 7am;
   2. measures are required on the premises to control the risk of emissions and impacts from dangerous goods stored as part of the use; and
2. the impacts of the use on other premises, or road or infrastructure networks, exceed the limits for the use stated in a local planning instrument applying to the premises.

Tanneries, rendering plants, oil refineries, waste incineration, manufacturing or storing explosives, power plants, manufacturing fertilisers

1. as part of a transmission grid or supply network to—
   1. convert of transform electrical energy from one voltage to another; or
   2. regulate voltage in an electrical circuit; r 
   3. control electrical circuits; or
   4. switch electrical current between circuits; or
2. for a telecommunications facility for—
   1. works, as defined under the Electricity Act, section 12(1); or
   2. workforce operational and safety communications.

1. presenting movies, live entertainment or music to the public; or
2. the production of film or music; or
3. the following activities or facilities, if the use is ancillary to a use in paragraph (a) or (b) –
   1. preparing and selling food and drink for consumption on the premises; 
   2. facilities for editing and post-production;
   3. facilities for wardrobe, laundry and make-up;
   4. set construction workshops;
   5. sound stages.

1. providing entertainment to, or a recreation facility or, the general public; or
2. preparing and selling food and drink for consumption non the premises, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. holiday, accommodation in caravans, self-contained cabins, tents or other similar structures; or
2. amenity facilities, a food and drink outlet, a manager’s residence, offices, recreation facilities for the use of occupants and their visitors, or staff accommodation, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. storing vehicles, or machinery, that is used for a commercial or public purpose; or 
2. cleaning, repairing or servicing vehicles or machinery, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a). 

1. a service for supplying or treating water, hydraulic power or gas; or
2. a sewerage, drainage or stormwater service; or
3. a transport service; or
4. a waste management service; or
5. a maintenance depot, storage depot or other facility for a service stated in paragraphs (a) to (d).

1. the medical or surgical treatment of animals; or 
2. the short-term stay of animals, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a). 

Warehouse means the use of premises for- 

1. storing or distributing goods, whether or not carried out in a building; or
2. the wholesale of goods, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

Examples of a warehouse—
self-storage facility, storage yard

Wholesale nursery means the use of premises for- 

1. the wholesale of plants grown on or next to the premises; or 
2. selling gardening materials, if the use is ancillary to the use in paragraph (a).

1. making ; or 
2. selling wine that is made on the premises. 

• Bar
• Club
• Food and drink outlet
• Function facility
• Hotel
• Office
• Sales office
• Service industry
• Shop
• Shopping centre
• Showroom
• Theatre
• Tourist Attraction

• Child care centre
• Club
• Community care centre
• Community residence
• Community use
• Health care services
• Place of worship

• Animal husbandry
• Animal keeping
• Cropping
• Intensive animal industry
• Intensive horticulture
• Rural worker’s accommodation

1. means a permanent sign, structure or other device used, or intended to be used, for advertising; and 
2. includes a structure, or part of a building, the primary purpose of which is to support the sign, structure or device.

1. between a floor level in a building and the floor level that is immediately below it; and
2. no part of which is more than 1m above ground level.

boundary clearance means the distance between a building or structure on premises and the boundary of the
premises and the boundary of the premises, measured from the part of the building or structure that is closest to the boundary, other than a part that is—

1. an architectural or ornamental attachment; or
2. a rainwater fitting.

Examples—

1. If the fascia of a building is the part of the building that is closest to the boundary, the boundary clearance is the distance between the outside of the fascia and the boundary.
2. If a point on the roof of a building is the part of the building that is closest to the boundary, the boundary clearance is the distance between that point on the roof and the boundary.

1. the vertical distance, measured in metres, between the ground level of the building and the highest point on the roof of the building, other than a point that is part of an aerial, chimney, flagpole or load-bearing antenna; or
2. the number of storeys in the building above ground level.

1. buildings or structures, measured to their outermost projection; or
2. landscaping or open space; or
3. facilities relating to the development; or
4. on-site stormwater drainage or wastewater treatment; or
5. a car park, road, access track or area used for vehicle movement; or
6. another area of disturbance.

1. a shed, garage or carport; and
2. ancillary to a residential use carried out on the premises where the building is.

dwelling means all or part of a building that—

1. is used, or capable of being used, as a self-contained residence; and
2. contains—
   1. food preparation facilities; and
   2. a bath or shower; and
   3. a toilet; and
   4. a wash basin; and
   5. facilities for washing clothes.

1. building services, plant or equipment; or
2. access between levels; or
3. a ground floor public lobby; or
4. a mall; or
5. parking, loading or manoeuvring vehicles; or
6. unenclosed private balconies, whether roofed or not.

1. the level of the natural ground; or
2. if the level of the natural ground has changed, the level as lawfully changed.

1. live in a dwelling with the intent of living together on a long-term basis; and
2. make common provision for food and other essentials for living.

1. 50m2;
2. an area equal to 5% of the gross floor area of the building.

minor electricity infrastructure means development stated in the Planning Regulation 2017, schedule 6 section 26(5).

net developable area, for premises, means the area of the premises that—

1. is able to be developed; and
2. is not subject to a development constraint, including, for example a constraint relating to acid sulfate soils, flooding or slope.

non-resident worker means a person who—

1. performs work as part of—
   1. a resource extraction project; or
   2. a project identified in a planning scheme as a major industry or infrastructure project; or
   3. a rural use; and
2. lives, for extended periods, in the locality of the project, but has a permanent residence elsewhere.

Example of a non-resident worker—
a person engaged in fly-in/fly-out, or drive in/drive out, working arrangements

1. a retractable blind; or
2. a fixed screen; or
3. a rainwater fitting; or
4. an ornamental attachment.

secondary dwelling means a dwelling, whether attached or detached, that is used in conjunction with, and subordinate to, a dwelling house on the same lot.

service catchment means an area serviced by an infrastructure network.

site, of development, means the land that the development is to be carried out on.

Examples—

1. If development is to be carried out on part of a lot, the site of the development is that part of the lot.
2. If development is to be carried out on part of 1 lot and part of an adjoining lot, the site of the development is both of those parts.

site cover, of development, means the portion of the site, expressed as a percentage, that will be covered by a building or structure, measured to its outermost projection, after the development is carried out, other than a building or structure, or part of a building or structure, that is—

1. in a landscaped or open space area, including, for example a gazebo or shade structure; or
2. a basement that is completely below ground level and used for car parking; or
3. the eaves of a building; or
4. a sun shade.

storey—

1. means a space within a building between 2 floor levels, or a floor level and a ceiling or roof, other than—
   1. a space containing only a lift shaft, stairway or meter room; or
   2. a space containing only a bathroom, shower room, laundry, toilet or other sanitary compartment; or
   3. a space containing only a combination of the things stated in subparagraphs (i) or (ii); or
   4. a basement with a ceiling that is not more than 1m above ground level; and
2. includes—
   1. a mezzanine; and
   2. a roofed structured that is on, or part of, a rooftop, if the structure does not only accommodate building plant and equipment.

temporary use means a use that—

1. is carried out on a non-permanent basis; and
2. does not involve the construction of, or significant changes to, permanent buildings or structures.

1. including residential, industrial, sporting, recreation and commercial purposes; but
2. not including rural residential, environmental, conservation, rural, natural or wilderness area purposes.