New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 4.7

4.7 Provisions relating to Sydney district or regional planning panels

(1) Development of the following kind cannot be declared as regionally significant development for which a Sydney district or regional planning panel is the consent authority--

(a) complying development,

(b) development for which development consent is not required,

(c) development that is State significant development,

(d) development for which a person or body other than a council is the consent authority,

(e) development within the City of Sydney.

(2) The following consent authority functions of a Sydney district or regional planning panel are to be exercised on behalf of the panel by the council of the area in which the proposed development is to be carried out--

(a) receiving development applications and determining and receiving fees for the applications,

(b) undertaking assessments of the proposed development and providing them to the panel (but without limiting the assessments that the panel may undertake),

(c) obtaining any concurrence, and undertaking any consultation, that the consent authority is required to obtain or undertake,

(d) carrying out the community participation requirements of Division 2.6,

(e) notifying or registering the determinations of the panel,

(f) the functions under section 4.17 in relation to the provision of security,

(g) the determination of applications to extend the period before consents lapse,

(h) any other function prescribed by the regulations.