Planning Proposal to amend Clause 4.4A - Exceptions to floor space ratios and Clause 6.6 - Active street frontages, in Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012

The planning proposal seeks to ensure the ground floor of buildings with an active street frontage in zones B1 Neighbourhood Centre and B2 Local Centre is used for non-residential purposes only by amending Clause 6.6 - Active street frontages, in Hurstville LEP 2012.The planning proposal also seeks to remove the non-residential floor space requirement of 0.5:1 for development in zone B1 Neighbourhood Centre and zone B2 Local Centre by repealing Clause 4.4A - Exceptions to floor space ratios for buildings on land in certain zones.

Council at its meeting held 5 September 2016 resolved that the Planning Proposal be amended as follows:
- Retain Clause 4.4A and rename the clause “Non-residential floor space ratios”, include an objective to the clause and reduce the amount of non-residential floor space required for development in the B1 Neighbourhood Centre and B2 Local Centre zones from 0.5:1 to 0.3:1;
- Not proceed with the proposal to expand the application of Clause 6.6 Active street frontages to land zoned B1 Neighbourhood Centre because by retaining a non-residential floor space requirement (at a reduced level of 0.3:1) it is no longer necessary to have active street frontage provisions in these smaller centres. The application of active street frontages in the B1 Neighbourhood Centre zone is also inconsistent with the smaller scale of these centres; and
- Amend Clause 6.6 6 Active street frontages by including medical centres as a land use which satisfies the active street frontage definition.