SEPP No. 5 - Housing for Older People or People with a Disability Abstract: Aims to increase the supply and choice of housing for older people or people with a disability. Such housing is permitted, with council consent, wherever houses, flats, hospitals or ‘special uses’ are permitted in or adjoining urban areas, except for some environmentally sensitive lands. The policy contains development standards and matters a council must consider when determining development applications. For example, the council must be satisfied that future residents will have reasonable access to services they require, taking into account, convenience, affordability and the type and scale of housing. SEPP 5 Guide should be read in conjunction with this policy.

State Environmental Planning Policy No 9 -- Group Homes The aim of this Policy is to facilitate the establishment of: (a) permanent group homes in which disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons may lead as normal a life as possible by living permanently in an ordinary residential household environment, instead of in an institutional environment, and (b) transitional group homes which provide temporary accommodation for disabled persons or socially disadvantaged persons in an ordinary residential household environment instead of in an institutional environment for purposes such as alcohol or drug rehabilitation,“half-way” rehabilitation for persons formerly living in institutions and refuges for men, women or young people.