"Dwelling" means a self contained residential unit designed for or occupied exclusively by one household and includes apartments, semi-detached and detached houses, home units, town houses, boarding houses and community homes accommodating fewer than six people at any one time and similar forms of residential development. A dwelling may also include attached self-contained suites when occupied by a member of the same family, and garages part of the same building which are primarily for storage of the occupants’ vehicles, tools and the like.

"Education Facilities" means land and/or buildings used to provide regular instruction or training and includes pre-schools, schools, tertiary education institutions, works skills training centres, outdoor education centres and sports training establishments.

"Effluent Aerosols" means particles of effluent that are small enough to become airborne and carry significant distances.

"Electric line" means an electric line as defined in the electricity regulations 1993. References to the undergrounding of electric lines also in this plan include wires but do not include electricity distribution substations and apparatus for connection of supply to individual customers.

"Exclusive Use Area" means that part of a site which must be set aside for the exclusive use of the occupants of the house to which it relates but does not include additional areas of land set aside on another site via easements.

Such areas shall be unencumbered by any right-of-way and/or common area which the occupants of the house are or will be required to share the use of or vest in any other party or the public; easements for water supply and drainage excepted.

"Farming" means and includes breeding of animals, agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, beekeeping, aquaculture and the keeping of not more than 25 poultry and/or 10 pigs, ancillary activities including a topdressing airstrip, dams and irrigation races for on-site water supply and ancillary processing of rural products.

“General quality soils” means land not classified as “high quality soils” as defined in this Plan.

"Gross Floor Area" means the sum of the floor areas of a building measured to the outside of the exterior walls or structural frame of the building, but may exclude any basement, roof space or other floor area allocated to car parking, loading docks and machinery or plant space.