Town planner in Liverpool

Planning in Liverpool

Liverpool spans older suburbs with established dual occupancy controls and the South West Growth Area precincts where lot sizes, setbacks and the Growth Centre DCP govern new dwellings and granny flats.

Austral and Leppington rural-residential lots are being progressively rezoned and subdivided; permissibility depends on which precinct plan applies and whether the land has been released.

The Georges River floodplain and the Western Sydney Aerotropolis provisions affect land around Moorebank, Chipping Norton and Kemps Creek.

What we do for Liverpool sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Liverpool Local Environmental Plan 2008 and Liverpool Development Control Plan 2008.
• Development due diligence reports before you buy: zoning, permissibility, yield, constraints and the approval pathway.
• Dual occupancy and duplex planning, including minimum lot size and frontage checks, CDC eligibility under the Low Rise Housing Diversity Code and Torrens subdivision advice.
• Granny flat planning where the site does not fit the Housing Code and a DA is needed.
• Townhouse and multi dwelling housing yield testing, DCP compliance and SEE reports.
• Subdivision, Clause 4.6 requests, DA or CDC advice and responses to council requests.

Suburbs we cover in Liverpool

How a DA works in Liverpool

Development applications are lodged through the NSW Planning Portal and assessed by the council against the LEP, the DCP and the section 4.15 matters in the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. Where a proposal meets every standard in the Codes SEPP it may instead be approved as complying development by a private certifier, which is faster but has no room for merit assessment. We check both pathways before recommending one.

A complete application is the single biggest thing an applicant controls. Our Statements of Environmental Effects address the LEP and DCP in the order the assessing officer reads them, with the sources shown, so requests for information are the exception rather than the rule.