Terms and Definitions
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- Occupancy Permit
- is attained for new dwellings once the final inspection has been approved and signifies that the building can be occupied.
- Outbuilding
- a building or use not intended for human habitation but forming an accessory to the principal use of associated buildings; including a carport, garage, machinery room, farm building, shed, greenhouse, public toilet or private swimming pool.
- Overlooking
- means a habitable room window or raised open space of a building on an allotment must not provide a direct line of sight into a habitable room window or on to a secluded private open space of an existing dwelling on an adjourning allotment.
- Overshadowing
- means a building must not reduce the sunlight to a recreational private open space of an existing dwelling on an adjourning allotment to the extent that less than the required minimum area of the recreational private open space has less than 5 hours of sunlight between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on 22 September.
- Owner-builder
- is a person who carries out domestic building work on his or her own land, who is not in the business of building.