Home Business Policy
Responsible Directorate: Planning and Community Development
Objective: To provide criteria for the establishment of home businesses within the City.
1. Authority:
This Policy has been prepared in accordance with Clause 8.11 of the City of Joondalup District
Planning Scheme No. 2 which allows Council to prepare planning policies relating to planning
or development within the Scheme area.
2. Application:
This Policy applies to the whole of the City of Joondalup.
3. Definitions:
“amenity” means all those factors which combine to form the character of the area to
residents and passers-by and shall include the present and likely future amenity, as defined
within the City of Joondalup District Planning Scheme No. 2.
“Home Business — Category 1” means an occupation carried on within a dwelling by a
resident of the dwelling which:
a. does not entail the retail sale, outdoor display or hire of goods of any nature;
b. does not cause injury to or prejudicially affect the amenity of the neighbourhood;
c. does not entail any substantial and/or inappropriate modification of the dwelling;
d. does not entail the employment of any other person, except a member of the
household;
e. does not occupy an area greater than 20m² or where more than one resident is
involved not cause the area used for the home business within the dwelling to occupy
an area greater than 30m²;
f. does not display any advertising signage;