Town planner in Wollondilly

Planning in Wollondilly

Wilton and Appin are the Wollondilly growth areas, with Wilton governed by its own precinct provisions and a Wilton Growth Area DCP.

Bushfire prone land, koala habitat and the mine subsidence districts around Picton, Tahmoor and Appin affect building design and require additional reports with most DAs.

Village lots in Picton, Tahmoor, Thirlmere and Bargo support dual occupancies and secondary dwellings subject to the LEP lot size and sewer availability.

What we do for Wollondilly sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Wollondilly Local Environmental Plan 2011 and Wollondilly Development Control Plan 2016.
• 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 Wollondilly

How a DA works in Wollondilly

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.