Terms and Definitions
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- Deck
- a horizontal platform attached to, or forming part of, a building.
- Demolition
- the complete or partial dismantling and removal of a building or structure, by pre-planned and controlled methods or procedures, and normally carried out prior to redevelopment work.
- Detached Dwelling
- a building or use, where a group of people live as a single household or family.
- Developer
- an entrepreneurial organisation or individual who acquires land for subsequent subdivision and/or development, and sale on a unit basis.
- Dispensation
- ResCode or Report and Consent is required for works that involve a variation of the Building Regulations which require a special approval.
- Domestic Dwelling
- one or more buildings which in association constitute - A single dwelling, being - (i) a detached house; or (ii) one or more attached dwellings, each being a building, separated by a fire-resisting wall, including a row house, terrace house, town house or villa unit, which is not located above or below anohter dwellings or class of building other than a private garage. A non habitable building being a private garage, carport, shed or the like. (BCA Class 1m, 1a or 10a)
- Draftsperson
- designs and develops working drawings (plans).
- Drawings
- documents presenting information in pictorial form with or without text, including plans, sections, elevations, projections or perspectives of elements, and their location, interrelationships and sizes.
- Dual Occupancy
- the sharing of a single residential site by two independent households, sometimes housed in separate buildings.
- Dwelling
- a building or a part of a building intended for use as a residence by a single household.
- Dwelling unit
- is a self-contained suite of rooms, including cooking and bathing facilities and intended for long-term residential use.