Town planner in Ryde

Planning in Ryde

Ryde has a mature market for dual occupancies and knock-down rebuilds on R2 lots and detailed DCP controls on streetscape, front setbacks and garages.

Macquarie Park and Eastwood are nominated centres under the low and mid-rise housing reforms, opening townhouse and manor house options within 800 metres.

Foreshore and scenic protection areas along the Parramatta River affect Putney, Gladesville and Tennyson Point.

What we do for Ryde sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Ryde Local Environmental Plan 2014 and Ryde Development Control Plan 2014.
• 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 Ryde

How a DA works in Ryde

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.