Town planner in Campbelltown

Planning in Campbelltown

Campbelltown's older lots in Macquarie Fields, Ingleburn and Minto are a steady source of dual occupancy and granny flat DAs, and the council has clear controls on private open space, landscaping and parking for each.

The Macarthur growth areas at Menangle Park, Mount Gilead and Glenfield carry their own planning provisions and koala corridor requirements.

Bushfire prone land along the Georges River corridor and the Scenic Hills, and flood mapping along Bow Bowing Creek, are the frequent constraints.

What we do for Campbelltown sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Campbelltown Local Environmental Plan 2015 and Campbelltown (Sustainable City) Development Control Plan 2015.
• 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 Campbelltown

How a DA works in Campbelltown

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.