Terms and Definitions
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- Party Wall
- the wall between two adjourning buildings or occupancies which provides common structural support and fire separation.
- Pergola
- an open-roofed framework over a path, terrace or patio, supported on posts or columns, and usually covered with plants trained over the members.
- Private Building Surveyor
- are independent professionals with the same power to issue building permits and occupancy permits as municipal building surveyors.
- Private Open Space
- means: (a) an unroofed area of land; or (b) a deck, terrace, patio, balcony, pergola, verandah, gazebo or swimming pool.
- Property Information
- provides information for permits issued in the last 10 years and details of any overlays (i.e. flood prone) on that property.
- Protection of adjourning property
- must be provided in respect of an adjourning property, before and during the carrying out of any building work, if required by the relevant building surveyor.
- Public buildings
- is an assembly building including a trade workshop, laboratory or the like in a primary or secondary school, but excluding any other parts of the building that are of another Class. (BCA Class 9b)