Council guide · NSW

Camden Council

What a house block can carry in Camden Council's area — the dual-occupancy minimums, the granny-flat rule and the C4 controls, read from the Camden Local Environmental Plan 2010 on legislation.nsw.gov.au, and whether the state Low and Mid-Rise rules reach here.

600 m²dual-occupancy minimum lot

18 mfrontage

60 m² or 25%granny flat (the greater)

Dual occupancy (two homes on one lot)

Cl 4.1D — 600 m² (800 m² on a corner lot) and 18 m wide at the front building line for homes one behind the other, 22 m for side by side.

Secondary dwelling (granny flat)

Camden LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 25% of the house’s total floor area, parking excluded. Under the state Housing SEPP a granny flat of up to 60 m² can also go through the ten-day complying-development route on a lot of 450 m² or more, with a 12 m frontage, where the land is not flood, bushfire or heritage constrained.

C4 Environmental Living

In the C4 Environmental Living zone: a house is permitted; no dual occupancy; a secondary dwelling is permitted; no semi-detached pairs. The state Low and Mid-Rise rules do not apply in C4.

Low and Mid-Rise

Inside the state Low and Mid-Rise area — within about an 800 m walk of a listed town centre or station — the Housing SEPP overrides the LEP minimums above: a dual occupancy on 450 m² with a 12 m frontage, terraces on 500 m² / 18 m, townhouses on 600 m² / 12 m and a manor house on 500 m² / 12 m, up to 9.5 m high. Block Checker reads the centre layer on the Planning Portal and tells you which side of the line your lot sits. Bushfire-prone, flood-control and heritage land is carved out and falls back to the LEP.

Constraints that change the answer

Bushfire-prone land (RFS map), flood-control lots, heritage items and conservation areas, and landslip risk all take a lot out of the fast-track routes and into a full DA. Easements, covenants and sewer mains are not on the public maps — a title search and a Sydney Water or council water check are always needed.

Approval routes

Complying development (CDC) — a private certifier issues it in days where the design meets every state standard; no neighbour notification.
Pattern Book — the NSW pre-approved designs, ten-day approval, subject to survey (slope) and the site tests.
Development application (DA) — lodged with Camden Council through the NSW Planning Portal; weeks to months, neighbours notified, merit assessment against the LEP and DCP.

Useful links: camden.nsw.gov.au · NSW Planning Portal (lodge a DA or CDC, spatial viewer) · legislation.nsw.gov.au (search the LEP by name).

A residential street in Camden Council's area — **Suburbs** — Barker, Bickley Vale, Bringelly, Camden, Camden South, Catherine Field, **Cobbitty**, Currans Hill, Elderslie, Ellis Lane, Gledswood Hills, **Grasmere**, Gregory Hills, **Harrington Park**, **Kirkham**, Leppington, Mount Annan, Narellan, Narellan Vale, Oran Park, **Smeaton Grange**, **Spring Farm**.