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Pool fencing and barriers

Relevant rules in the Regulation:

Schedule 1.

The Building Act 2004 requires all swimming pools to have fences and barriers. These barriers help keep young children away from the water.

Pool fencing or barriers don't need DA approval if:

it isn't an open space boundary fence
it's no more than 2.7m above datum ground level (for a mesh fence in an industrial zone)
it's otherwise no more than 2.3m above datum ground level (the support posts can be 2.5m)
no part is between a front boundary and a building line for the block
no part changes the flow of surface water in a way that causes ponding or flow onto other land and
it meets the relevant general exemption criteria.

Also see:

swimming pool DA exemptions
home swimming pool safety reforms
pool fencing and barriers BA exemptions.

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