For further details relating to making an application or pre-application meeting, please contact the PALM Customer Service Centre . You should apply for a habitable suite when you want to alter or add to the main dwelling to provide a separate living unit for a dependent or carer. The use of this space as a second dwelling is only permitted while it is being used by the person nominated as the carer or dependent in the approval granted for the temporary care accommodation. Neither a habitable suite nor a relocatable unit may be used as a separate tenanted space. It is not intended to be used for commercial purposes or for allowing for dependent care accommodation to remain permanently as a general land use.
Approvals are conditional on the circumstances of the dependent person.
They expire when the dependent person is no longer a permanent resident. Planning and Land Management will send a letter to the applicant each year to assist in its records and monitoring. A Habitable Suite similarly is required to be modified and restored as part of the main dwelling. Details of both the carer and dependent's accommodation arrangements are also required. You must provide suitable evidence, usually by way of a doctor's certificate, together with the requisite statutory declaration.