Town planner in Canterbury-Bankstown

Planning in Canterbury-Bankstown

The 2023 LEP and DCP replaced the separate Canterbury and Bankstown instruments, harmonising dual occupancy lot sizes and the Torrens subdivision rules across the LGA.

Bankstown and Campsie are nominated centres for the low and mid-rise housing reforms and sit on the Sydenham to Bankstown metro corridor, changing what is permissible near stations.

Flood mapping along the Cooks River, Salt Pan Creek and the Georges River, and heritage conservation areas in Earlwood and Campsie, are the frequent constraints.

What we do for Canterbury-Bankstown sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Canterbury-Bankstown Local Environmental Plan 2023 and Canterbury-Bankstown Development Control Plan 2023.
• 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 Canterbury-Bankstown

How a DA works in Canterbury-Bankstown

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.