Exempt Development
- Details
- Written by: Adam Gatt Penrith City Council (02) 4732 7777 (02) 4732 7958 council@penrithcity.nsw.gov.au https://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au 601 High St Penrith NSW 2750 Australia
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Exempt developments are types of development that don't need Council consent. All exempt developments must still meet set requirements such as size, location, use and construction standards. If the State-wide exempt development code covers the same development type listed in a Council exempt development code, then the State-wide code prevails.
Read the Exempt Development Information Sheet and click on the relevant link below to see the NSW Legislation web page outlining the standards for what you want to develop:
- Access ramps
- Aerials and antennae
- Air-conditioning units (additional information on noise laws)
- Animal shelters
- Automatic teller machines
- Aviaries
- Blinds and canopies
- Balconies, decks, patios, pergolas, terraces and verandahs
- Barbecues and other outdoor cooking structures
- Bollards
- Cabanas, cubby houses, ferneries, garden sheds, gazebos and greenhouses
- Carports
- Change of use of premises
- Clothes hoist and clothes lines
- Communications dishes (radio and satellite)
- Demolition (of structures that are exempt to build)
- Driveways
- Earthworks and retaining walls
- Emergency work and temporary repairs
- Fences (non rural)
- Fences (rural)
- Filming
- Flagpoles
- Fowl and poultry houses
- Fuel tanks and gas storage
- Garbage bin storage enclosure
- Home businesses, home industries and home occupations
- Hot water systems (or click here for solar energy systems and refer to clause 39 (3))
- Landscaping structures
- Letterboxes
- Minor building alterations (internal)
- Minor building alterations (external)
- Pathways and paving
- Playground equipment
- Portable swimming pools and spas and child-resistant barriers
- Privacy screens
- Rainwater tanks (above ground)
- Rainwater tanks (below ground)
- Screen enclosures (of balconies, decks, patios, pergolas, terraces and verandahs)
- Shade structures of canvas, fabric, mesh or the like
- Signage (replacement of identification signs)
- Skylights, roof windows and ventilators
- Solar energy systems (*note at bottom of section 2.74)
- Subdivision
- Swimming pools and spas (portable)
- Temporary builders' structures
- Temporary structures (other than tents and marquees), and temporary alterations or additions or works, solely for filming purposes
- Tennis courts
- Tents or marquees used solely for filming purposes
- Water features and ponds