What is a Development Contribution Plan Overlay?

The Development Contributions Plan Overlay (DCPO) is the planning scheme tool that is being employed to collect financial contributions from developers towards the planned infrastructure that is listed in the DCP.

A developer will be required to pay the development contribution prior to the issue of the building permit.

Payment of a development contribution applies to all development requiring a planning permit. However, the following some types of development are exempt:

• Non- government schools
• Development that comprises renovations or alterations to an existing dwelling, demolition of a dwelling and replacement with a new dwelling and outbuildings and fences normal to a dwelling (the exemption does not apply to works associated with a second or subsequent dwellings on the same land); and
• Reinstatement of a building which has been unintentionally damaged or destroyed, provided that the floor area of the new building is not greater than the damaged or destroyed building.