Town planner in Bayside

Planning in Bayside

Bayside merged the former Rockdale and Botany Bay controls into a single LEP in 2021 and a DCP in 2022.

Aircraft noise mapping from Sydney Airport (ANEF) and the coastal zone affect residential design across much of the LGA.

Flood mapping along the Cooks River, Muddy Creek and Bardwell Creek and the Wolli Creek valley is a standard SEE section.

What we do for Bayside sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Bayside Local Environmental Plan 2021 and Bayside Development Control Plan 2022.
• 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 Bayside

How a DA works in Bayside

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.