You must get development consent before you can start operating a home-based beauty and skin penetration business from a residential premises.
You can get development consent through a Development Application (DA). If you need development advice please phone Council’s duty planner on (02) 4227 7111 between 9am to 5pm on work days.
Applications submitted to Council will be assessed based on risk. Council Town Planners and Environmental Health Officers will only approve low risk home-based beauty and skin penetration businesses as defined in the Local Environmental Plan (LEP).
Low risk activities allowed at home based businesses
Home-based ‘Beauty Procedures’ that are allowed under the LEP include the following low risk activities:
- waxing
- cosmetic tattooing
- electrolysis
- acupuncture
- lancets
- microblading
- dermaplaning/skin needling
- piercing (ears and nose using piercing gun only)
- microdermabrasion.
High risk activities not allowed at home-based businesses
If you intend to carryout high-risk services, you must operate out of a commercial premises. These cannot be done at a home-based business.
Activities considered high risk include:
- Tattooing
- Body piercing
- Botox injections
- Blood testing
- Dermal fillers
- Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) facials
- Colonic lavage
- Body art including implantation, branding and scarification
- Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) / light therapy.
You also cannot any business from home that:
- requires an Operator and/or Tattooist Licence under the Department of Fair Trading's Tattoo Parlour Licencing Information
- undertakes any procedures requiring a registered medical practitioner.