Hazardous waste Removed. Defined in other legislation (HSNO) and not considered to be required. Councils can define if required using the hazardous substances definition Household Means a person or groups of persons related or Remove. unrelated who reside together and interact on a regular Term has an ordinary understood meaning. This was looked at being defined to assist with daily domestic basis. to maintain a self-contained the residential unit definition but attempting to define opened up the definition to varied housekeeping unit. interpretations in the feedback, and decision was made to rely an ordinary understood meaning rather than define it. Initial thinking with some of the tracked changes is shown in black below. The interpretation of our proposed definition of unit’ is dependent on a definition of ‘residential The purpose of this link is to provide a distinction between a house/dwelling and other ‘household’. types of accommodation such as hostels and boarding houses. It is that the Building Act 2004 contains a definition of unit’, but this ‘household definition is not considered suitable for a planning purpose. The intention here is that in addition to a family dwelling it should capture flatting situations other than where it is more like a boarding facility. We attempted to exclude situations where a building contains large communal bathrooms and kitchens and a room is leased out individually in situations like university hostels. Internal alteration Means any change to the fabric or features of an Consideration was given to defining internal and external alteration separately but existing building or structure which results in a change decision was made that councils can define this if they need to do so, on the basis that this (heritage) to its internal appearance. is not commonly required. Maintenance Removed context important. – Maintenance of Policy decision to not include. Infrastructure Met with the utilities and we agreed that specific utility provisions like support structure and minor utility structure should be removed from the planning standards. This is on the basis that they want to continue to work on model provisions and want any definitions to reflect the approach that they develop.
Hazardous waste Removed. Defined in other legislation (HSNO) and not considered to be required. Councils can define if required using the hazardous substances definition Household Means a person or groups of persons related or unrelated who reside together and interact on a regular daily domestic basis. to maintain a self-contained housekeeping unit. Remove. Term has an ordinary understood meaning. This was looked at being defined to assist with the residential unit definition but attempting to define opened up the definition to varied interpretations in the feedback, and decision was made to rely an ordinary understood meaning rather than define it. Initial thinking with some of the tracked changes is shown in black below. The interpretation of our proposed definition of ‘residential unit’ is dependent on a definition of ‘household’. The purpose of this link is to provide a distinction between a house/dwelling and other types of accommodation such as hostels and boarding houses. It is that the Building Act 2004 contains a definition of ‘household unit’, but this definition is not considered suitable for a planning purpose. The intention here is that in addition to a family dwelling it should capture flatting situations other than where it is more like a boarding facility. We attempted to exclude situations where a building contains large communal bathrooms and kitchens and a room is leased out individually in situations like university hostels. Internal alteration (heritage) Means any change to the fabric or features of an existing building or structure which results in a change to its internal appearance. Consideration was given to defining internal and external alteration separately but decision was made that councils can define this if they need to do so, on the basis that this is not commonly required. Maintenance Removed – context important. Maintenance of Infrastructure Policy decision to not include. Met with the utilities and we agreed that specific utility provisions like support structure and minor utility structure should be removed from the planning standards. This is on the basis that they want to continue to work on model provisions and want any definitions to reflect the approach that they develop.
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