New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

NEWCASTLE CITY CENTRE LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 2008 - REG 21

21 Height of buildings

(1) The objectives for the control of the height of buildings are as follows:

(a) to allow sunlight access to key areas of the public domain by ensuring that further overshadowing of certain parks and community places is avoided or limited during nominated times,

(b) to ensure that the built form of the Newcastle city centre develops in a coordinated and cohesive manner,

(c) to ensure that taller buildings are appropriately located,

(d) to nominate heights that will provide a transition in built form and land use intensity within the area covered by this Plan,

(e) to ensure the preservation of view corridors that are significant for historic and urban design reasons.

(2) Subject to subclauses (3) and (4) and the other provisions of this Plan, the height of a building on any land is not to exceed the maximum height shown for the land on the Height of Buildings Map .

(3) Subject to clause 22, street frontage heights of a building in a section shown by distinctive marking in figure 2.10 of the City Centre Development Control Plan 2006 are not to exceed the maximum heights shown for that section in whichever of figure 2.11, 2.12 and 2.13 of that plan relates to that section.

(4) The height of a building on land within the area bounded by Hunter Street, King Street, Newcomen Street and Perkins Street may exceed the maximum height referred to in subclause (2) if:

(a) the site area concerned is greater than 10,000 square metres, and

(b) the height of any building on that land does not exceed 40 metres Australian Height Datum, and

(c) the consent authority is satisfied that the impact of the height of the building on view corridors, identified in Newcastle Development Control Plan 2005 , to and from the Christchurch Cathedral and the Hunter River foreshore is not unreasonable.