04/12/2024
What are the ‘deemed to comply’ standards?
Proposals in the commercial and community ‘core’ of Activity Centres that meet the building height, street wall height and setback requirements are proposed to be assessed against a ‘deemed to comply’ planning application pathway.
Under the ‘deemed to comply’ pathway, if an application meets the deemed to comply requirement, then that planning application cannot be refused on the basis of that requirement.
Deemed to comply controls are useful because they provide developers and the community with greater certainty about the likely expected scale and intensity of future development, while still allowing for innovative design responses on a case-by-case basis if the deemed to comply requirements are not met.