Brown Road (Residential) Development Plan Amendment

The Minister for Planning authorised the Brown Road (Residential) DPA within the Government Gazette dated 26 November 2015.

Council's Development Plan has now been updated to include the re-zoning of the small area of land located at the northern end of Brown Road, Carrickalinga to part of the Residential Zone.

After considering the public submissions, Council amended the DPA as follows:

• The area of land to be re-zoned was reduced by approximately 0.5 hectare by removing steep land on the western (coastal) end of the site.
• The upper boundary of the re-zoned land was re-located further down the hillside to the 60 metre contour
• Specific planning policies were introduced to limit the overall height of new buildings to a maximum height of 8 metres and to a maximum overall height not to exceed the 62 metre contour
• Minimum allotment sizes and wider frontage requirements were introduced where on-site effluent disposal is used.

The re-zoning of the land does not mean that any development of the site will begin. A development application to create new allotments and associated public roads and infrastructure will firstly need to be lodged and assessed against the technical requirements for land division.

Once approved, all public infrastructure (roads, drainage etc) must be completed to the required standards and then development applications will need to be indivually lodged for any future dwellings and associated outbuildings etc.

Within most local Development Plans within South Australia, land division development that is consistent with the objectives of the relevant zoning are not the subject of public notification. This is the case with the Yankalilla Development Plan, so any future land division application(s) to create residential allotments will not be the subject of further public notification.

Within the Residential Zone, new dwellings are a land use consistent with the primary objectives for the zone and because of this, are also not the subject of public notification. In this Policy Area of the zone, dwellings that exceed 8 metres or the 62 metre contour height will be non-complying forms of development and (if proposed) will be the subject of public notification as prescribed by the legislation.

Council adopted Stage 1 of the District - 30 Year Plan in 2009 which outlined a vision to accommodate the needs of our growing population in a manner that could best deliver on our environmental and community values and respect the character of our largest townships, Yankalilla, Normanville and Carrickalinga. This work was undertaken together with the community and a number of discreet township growth areas were identified to accommodate our projected natural population growth. The Plan also recognised the need to plan for business growth within our Town Centres to support the population and identified the sensitive environmental issues associated with the coast, waterways and native vegetation in areas adjacent to the towns. A number of discreet future Growth Areas were identified as staged extensions to these townships over the next 30 years. A Development Plan Amendment (DPA) process is the means to deliver this vision for the future.

The owner of the land where the DPA is proposed, requested that Council consider undertaking the process and also proposed to fund the required planning investigations. The DPA (as placed on consultation) proposes the rezoning of a portion of 202 Brown Road, Carrickalinga (approximately 1.8 to 2 hectares in area) from Primary Industry to Residential zoning. This area of land adjoins the rear boundaries of residential properties along the northern edge of Carrickalinga at the end of Brown Road. If re-zoned, approximately 18 residential allotments could be created. A map of the proposed DPA area can be viewed on this site.

Public consultation was undertaken in accordance with legislative requirements and closed in July 2014. A Public meeting was also held to hear verbal submissions in July 2014. A total of 45 written submissions have been received. A copy of a summary of the submissions and suggested policy responses can be found in the Document Library on this site. The issue of the visual impact of future residential development within this portion of the backdrop to Carrickalinga was a dominant issue of concern for many respondents and an independent Visual and Landscape Assessment report was prepared by Wax Design, Landscape Architects. A copy of this report can be found and downloaded from the Document Library.

A number of amendments to the consultation version of the DPA have been recommended as a result of considering the public responses and the Visual Impact reports as follows:It is proposed that:

In March 2015, Council considered all of the issues raised by Council's administration and the responses received during the public consultation process in relation to the DPA.

We will update this site once news has been received back from the Minister for Planning.