Fire safety changes for tourist accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region.
Applies to: Kosciuszko Alpine Region onlyThis circular advises of amendments to Chapter 4 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Regional) 2021 and related fire safety standards for tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region. The changes commenced on 1 October 2025.
Circular PS 25-003 is a point-in-time, non-statutory guidance note issued on 1 October 2025. Its job is to tell consent authorities, agencies, applicants and certifiers that the rules for fire safety in tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region have changed. Specifically, it flags amendments to Chapter 4 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Regional) 2021 and related fire safety standards, which commenced on 1 October 2025.
The source names four audiences the circular advises: consent authorities, agencies, applicants and certifiers. The underlying legal effect flows from the amended Chapter 4 of the SEPP (Precincts - Regional) 2021 and related fire safety standards, not from the circular itself, which is non-statutory guidance.
It applies to development involving tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region. The amendments it explains commenced on 1 October 2025.
The source names the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Regional) 2021 (Chapter 4) and "related fire safety standards" as the instruments the circular explains. No other instruments are named in the source text for this item.
The circular advises of amendments to Chapter 4 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Regional) 2021 affecting tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region.
The circular refers to related fire safety standards for tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region alongside the SEPP amendments.
The changes commenced on 1 October 2025, so assessments and certification from that date should reflect the amended requirements.
This item does not apply to Kiama. It is expressly limited to the Kosciuszko Alpine Region, and Kiama is a coastal Illawarra/South Coast LGA with no alpine tourist accommodation covered by Chapter 4 of the SEPP (Precincts - Regional) 2021. Kiama planners, applicants and certifiers can disregard it.
“This circular advises consent authorities, agencies, applicants and certifiers of amendments to Chapter 4 of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts - Regional) 2021 and related fire safety standards for tourist and visitor accommodation in the Kosciuszko Alpine Region.”
“These changes commenced on 1 October 2025.”
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