This legislation has been repealed.
Before granting consent for development for the purposes of a building, the consent authority must have regard to the principles of ecologically sustainable development as they relate to the proposed development based on a "whole of building" approach by considering:
(a) greenhouse gas reduction, and
(b) embodied energy in materials and building processes, and
(c) building design and orientation, and
(d) passive solar design and day lighting, and
(e) natural ventilation, and
(f) energy efficiency and energy conservation, and
(g) water conservation and reuse, and
(h) waste minimisation and recycling, and
(i) reduction of car dependence, and
(j) potential for adaptive reuse.