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Muswellbrook
Shire Council’s Local Environmental Plan provides that Home Occupations
are permissible in dwelling-houses (i.e. a single dwelling on a lot) with
development consent.
Home
Occupation means an occupation carried on by the permanent residents of
the dwelling-house which does not involve:
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the
registration of the building under the Factories, Shops and
Industries Act 1962;
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the
employment of persons other than those resident
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Interference
with the amenity of the neighbourhood by reason of the emission of
noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash,
dust, waste water, waste products or grit or oil or otherwise;
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the
display of goods, whether in a window or otherwise;
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the
exhibition of any notice, advertisement or sign (other than a
notice, advertisement or sign exhibited on that dwelling house or
dwelling to indicate the name and occupation of the resident)
(Note: Council’s Outdoor Advertising code requires that the sign
be no greater than 0.5 m2);
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the sale
of items (whether goods or materials), or the exposure or offer for
sale of items, by retail.
Home
occupations require the development consent of Council and need to be
accompanied by the forms and accompanying plans as specified in the
development application section of this site.
On
receipt of the applications for home occupations, Council will proceed to
notify adjoining and/or potentially affected landholders and advertise of
the proposal in the local paper. Further details on notification
procedures are available from the Notification
and Advertising Section of this site.
Home
Industries
Muswellbrook
Shire Council’s Local Environmental Plan provides that Home Occupations
are permissible in dwelling-houses (i.e. a single dwelling on a lot) with
development consent.
Home
Industry means an means an industry carried on in a building (other than a
dwelling-house) under the following circumstances:
- the
building does not occupy a floor space exceeding 50 square metres and
is erected within the curtilage of the dwelling-house occupied by the
person carrying on the industry or on adjoining land owned by that
person; and
- the
industry does not –
- interfere
with the amenity of the locality by reason of the emission of
noise, vibration, waste products or otherwise;
- involve
exposure to view from any adjacent premises or from any public
place of any unsightly matter; or
- require
the provision of any essential service main of a greater capacity
than that available in the locality.
Home
Industries require the development consent of Council and need to be
accompanied by the forms and accompanying plans as specified in the
development application section of this site.
On
receipt of the applications for home industries, Council will proceed to
notify adjoining and/or potentially affected landholders and advertise of
the proposal in the local paper. Further details on notification
procedures are available from the
Notification
and Advertising Section
of
this site.
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