Town planner in Sutherland Shire

Planning in Sutherland Shire

The Shire has clear dual occupancy and landscaped area controls, and the LEP uses a landscaped area standard alongside FSR that catches many designs.

Foreshore building lines, the coastal zone and bushfire mapping along the national park boundary affect a large share of sites.

Miranda, Sutherland and Caringbah are nominated centres under the low and mid-rise housing reforms.

What we do for Sutherland Shire sites

• Statements of Environmental Effects for new houses, knock-down rebuilds, alterations, dual occupancies, secondary dwellings and townhouses, written to Sutherland Shire Local Environmental Plan 2015 and Sutherland Shire 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 Sutherland Shire

How a DA works in Sutherland Shire

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.