Council guide · NSW

City of Parramatta

What a house block can carry in City of Parramatta's area — the dual-occupancy minimums, the granny-flat rule and the C4 controls, read from the Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023 on legislation.nsw.gov.au, and whether the state Low and Mid-Rise rules reach here.

600 m²dual-occupancy minimum lot

15 mfrontage

60 m² or 5%granny flat (the greater)

Dual occupancy (two homes on one lot)

Cl 4.1C — 600 m² and a 15 m frontage to a public road in R2, R3 and R4; a detached pair only on a corner lot, a lot with two street frontages or a heritage-item lot (cl 6.11).

Secondary dwelling (granny flat)

Parramatta LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 5% 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

This LEP has no C4 Environmental Living zone, or it is not read here.

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 City of Parramatta through the NSW Planning Portal; weeks to months, neighbours notified, merit assessment against the LEP and DCP.

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

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