The Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Notification of Neighbours) Regulation 2015 published 28 October 2015, amends the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 to:
(a) provide that the current requirement that certifying authorities must give occupiers of neighbouring land 14 days’ written notice of an application for a complying development certificate before a certificate is issued applies only to land in certain urban local government areas;
(b) provide that the current requirement that persons with the benefit of a complying development certificate give at least 7 days’ written notice to occupiers of land within 20 metres of the boundary of land that is the subject of the complying development certificate of the person’s intention to commence work applies only to land in certain urban local government areas (that is not in a residential release area); and
(c) provide that persons with the benefit of a complying development certificate applying to land in other local government areas give at least 2 days’ written notice to occupiers of land within 20 metres of the boundary of the land that is the subject of the complying development certificate of the person’s intention to commence work.
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