Australian Capital Territory

Land (Planning and Environment) Policy Direction - Remission of change of use charge 2003

Disallowable instrument DI2003-250
made under the
Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992

I REVOKE instrument No 13 of 2002 and under regulations 21 and 32 of the Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992 (the Regulations) and give the following policy direction for determining remissions to be given of change of use charges in the circumstances prescribed by regulations 20 and 31 respectively.

1.	The Planning and Land Authority must entirely remit the change of use charge for the types of lease variation or consolidation or subdivision referred to in Schedule 1.

Simon Corbell
Minister for Planning

14 August 2003

SCHEDULE 1 TO DISALLOWABLE INSTRUMENT 250 OF 2003

FULL REMISSION OF CHANGE OF USE CHARGE FOR

LEASE VARIATIONS, CONSOLIDATIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS

A full remission of change of use charge applies to the following type of lease variation:

1.	The variation of a lease, in the City West area, providing for office use to permit the use of the land for ‘residential’ purposes or ‘commercial accommodation’, provided the application to vary the lease was lodged on or before 30 June 2002.  The remission applies only to that portion of the added value attributable to a variation of the lease to allow the lessee to use the existing gross floor area of buildings on the land, but that area may include replacement buildings or parts of buildings.

In this instrument:

 “City West area” means the area shown within the bolded lines on the map below.