Housing & planning · Orange City Council
For-profit community events included in Orange planning proposal endorsed by committee
The resolution also removes Zone R1 from Clause 4.1AA and asks the Department to draft amendments to the Orange Local Environmental Plan 2011.
Reporting from public council minutes. How this article was prepared
Orange City Council’s Planning and Development Policy Committee has endorsed amendments that would broaden the intended interpretation of “community events” to include for-profit events, while removing Zone R1 from Clause 4.1AA.
The resolution, passed as part of the post-exhibition report on the Orange LEP 2011 administration amendment, authorises the Chief Executive Officer to formally make the plan under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. Council staff are to ask the Department to draft the LEP amendments.
The minutes do not record when the plan will be made or identify the land covered by the housekeeping amendment. They therefore support reporting the policy direction, but not tying the zoning change to a particular property or predicting which events or developments will be approved under the amended controls.
The committee also recorded its intention that “community events” be interpreted broadly enough to include events run for profit. The final wording and its application to individual proposals remain unresolved in the minutes.
What deserves a closer look
The resolution records an intended planning direction and later drafting and plan-making steps, but the supplied minutes do not give a timetable for those steps.
The minutes do not identify the subject land for the planning proposal, so the zoning amendment cannot be linked to a particular address or development from this record.
Questions for follow-up reporting
When will the Department be asked to begin, and complete, drafting the LEP amendments?
What land is covered by the proposed removal of Zone R1 from Clause 4.1AA?
How will council apply the broad interpretation of for-profit community events to individual planning proposals?
What happens next
The Chief Executive Officer is to formally make the endorsed planning proposal under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Council staff are to request that the Department undertake drafting of the LEP amendments.
Check the record
These passages were matched to the source text. Read them in context in the original minutes.
The committee endorsed the exhibited planning proposal and authorised the Chief Executive Officer to formally make the plan under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
For: Cr T Mileto (Mayor), Cr J Stedman (Deputy Mayor), Cr K Duffy, Cr T Greenhalgh, Cr F Kinghorne, Cr G Power, Cr M Ruddy, Cr J Whitton Against: Cr M McDonell (Chairperson), Cr D Mallard Absent: Cr G Judge, Cr S Peterson PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MINUTES 6 OCTOBER 2026 Page 8 2.7 POST EXHIBITION REPORT - ORANGE LEP 2011 ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENT (HOUSEKEEPING AMENDMENT) TRIM REFERENCE: 2026/1810 RESOLVED - 26/536 Cr D Mallard/Cr M McDonell That Council endorse the Planning Proposal as exhibited and authorise the Chief Executive Officer to formally make the plan in accordance with the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (Part
Resolution 26/536
Open original minutes ↗The resolution specifies removing Zone R1 from Clause 4.1AA and broadly interpreting community events to include for-profit community events.
3, Division 3.4, Section 3.36), subject to the following amendments: • Removing Zone R1 from Clause 4.1AA • Council confirm its intention for community events to be broadly interpreted to include "for profit" community events.
Resolution 26/536 amendments
Open original minutes ↗Council staff are to ask the Department to undertake drafting of the LEP amendments.
• Council staff will request that the Department undertake the drafting of the LEP amendments. For: Cr M McDonell (Chairperson), Cr T Mileto (Mayor), Cr J Stedman (Deputy Mayor), Cr K Duffy, Cr T Greenhalgh, Cr F Kinghorne, Cr D Mallard, Cr G Power, Cr M Ruddy, Cr J Whitton Against: Nil Absent: Cr G Judge, Cr S Peterson *Cr Judge joined the meeting via AudioVisual Link with the time being 7.59pm* 2.8 STATEWIDE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION PLAN TRIM REFERENCE: 2026/1859 RESOLVED - 26/537 Cr J Stedman/Cr T Greenhalgh That Council resolves to: 1 Note that the Statewide Community Participation Plan came into place on 1 September 2026.
Resolution 26/536
Open original minutes ↗Source record
Reported from Orange City Council’s public Planning and Development Committee minutes for 6 October 2026.
Key facts from the minutes
- The committee endorsed the planning proposal as exhibited, subject to amendments, in resolution 26/536.
- Zone R1 is to be removed from Clause 4.1AA.
- The committee confirmed that community events should be interpreted broadly to include for-profit community events.
- The Chief Executive Officer was authorised to formally make the plan under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
- Council staff will ask the NSW Department to draft the LEP amendments, but the minutes provide no completion date or subject land.
Why it matters
- If the plan is formally made, the amendments could affect how Orange assesses planning controls and community-event proposals, including events operated for profit. The minutes do not identify the affected land or explain how the interpretation will be applied to individual events.