Code Amendment finalised

The Ancillary Accommodation and Student Accommodation Definitions Review Code Amendment has now been finalised and adopted by the Minister for Planning.

We listened to your feedback and incorporated the following key changes to the code amendment in response:

• We increased the maximum floor area criteria for ancillary accommodation from 60 to 70 square metres to support living amenity
• We removed the part of the definition of ancillary accommodation relating to utilities and included it within the related policy instead, thereby enabling assessment of utilities connection to be undertaken on a discretionary basis by the relevant authority
• We included a new policy for ancillary accommodation specifying that the primary dwelling’s private open space is accessible to all occupiers of the site; this will ensure that ancillary accommodation has access to private open space and will further reinforce that ancillary accommodation is not a separate dwelling
• We referred to a ‘site’ instead of an ‘allotment’ in the definition of ancillary accommodation, consistent with other definitions.

View the full engagement report for more information about what we heard and how community feedback influenced the final code amendment.

Thank you to everyone who submitted their feedback.