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Suburb guide · 2535

Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Berry Mountain?

Most of Berry Mountain is land this tool does not answer for. 19 of the 19 blocks we checked sit in rural, conservation, industrial or special-purpose zones rather than a residential one, and Block Checker covers residential zones only. The counts below are what it could assess — they are not a finding that nothing can be built. For land like this, a planner reads the LEP for the zone directly.

Berry Mountain sits in Shoalhaven City Council's area under Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014. We ran 19 real Berry Mountain addresses through the checker: the typical block is 213,046 m² with 200.2 m of frontage. Most of them are not residential land, so see the note below before reading the counts.

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213,046 m²typical block
200.2 mtypical frontage
0 of 19could add a granny flat
0 of 19could carry two homes

The typical Berry Mountain block

The middle block of the 19 we checked is 213,046 m² with 200.2 m of street frontage. The smallest was 4,797 m² and the largest 606,688 m². Zones in the sample: C2 (9), C3 (5), RU1 (5).

under 450 m² 0
450–599 m² 0
600–699 m² 0
700–799 m² 0
800–999 m² 0
1,000 m²+ 19

The 19 blocks we checked, by land size.

What homes sell for in postcode 2535

Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2535, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Berry Mountain alone, and they are not a value for any one block.

  • Houses: $1.62m (11 to 30 sales, a small sample)
  • Units and apartments: not published (10 or fewer sales this quarter)

Source: NSW Government Rent and Sales Report (Department of Communities and Justice), sales tables by postcode, NSW Government. Updated each quarter.

A granny flat

0 of the 19 blocks we checked could take one. Shoalhaven LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 60% of the house’s total floor area, parking excluded. Separately, the state Housing SEPP allows a granny flat of up to 60 m² 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.

Dual occupancy (duplex) rules in Berry Mountain

0 of the 19 blocks we checked could carry two or more separate homes today.

Shoalhaven LEP sets no minimum lot size or frontage for a dual occupancy in R2 — permitted with consent and judged on Council's DCP; the Lot Size Map governs any split into two titles; outside the state Low and Mid-Rise area

What else turned up

19 of 19 were on bushfire-prone land; 4 of 19 carried a heritage listing or conservation area. Any of those takes a block out of the fast-track routes and into a full DA, so it changes the answer more than the lot size does.

How we got these numbers

We took 19 real Berry Mountain street addresses from the NSW geocoder and ran every one through the same engine this site runs for you, reading the planning controls live. Nothing here is modelled or estimated.

It is a sample, not a census. The addresses are a spread across what the geocoder returns, so treat these as "of the 19 blocks we checked" rather than a figure for every block in Berry Mountain. Your own block is the only one that answers for itself — that is what the box on the right is for.

213,046 m²200.2 m × 1064 m
The typical block in this suburb, to scale.
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Berry Mountain people — agent · planner · architect · builder.
More: the Shoalhaven City Council guide · duplexes in Shoalhaven · granny flats in Shoalhaven.
Nearby suburbs — Back Forest · Bellawongarah · Broughton · Broughton Vale · Bundewallah · Jaspers Brush · Woodhill · Depot Beach.
What would it cost to build? a duplex · terraces or townhouses · a knockdown rebuild · a manor house · a granny flat (Sydney build costs, Cost Checker).
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