Suburb guide · 2323
Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Freemans Waterhole?
Most of Freemans Waterhole is land this tool does not answer for. 24 of the 24 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.
Freemans Waterhole sits in Lake Macquarie City Council's area under Lake Macquarie Local Environmental Plan 2014. We ran 24 real Freemans Waterhole addresses through the checker: the typical block is 163,170 m² with 283.4 m of frontage. Most of them are not residential land, so see the note below before reading the counts.
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The typical Freemans Waterhole block
The middle block of the 24 we checked is 163,170 m² with 283.4 m of street frontage. The smallest was 5,113 m² and the largest 451,772 m². Zones in the sample: C3 (16), RU2 (6), RU3 (1), C2 (1).
The 24 blocks we checked, by land size.
What homes sell for in postcode 2323
Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2323, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Freemans Waterhole alone, and they are not a value for any one block.
- Houses: $871k (108 sales)
- Units and apartments: $666k (11 to 30 sales, a small sample)
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 24 blocks we checked could take one. Lake Macquarie LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 25% 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 Freemans Waterhole
0 of the 24 blocks we checked could carry two or more separate homes today.
Lake Macquarie LEP sets no minimum lot size or frontage for a dual occupancy — R2 permits ‘residential accommodation’ as a group term, so it is judged on Council's DCP; the Lot Size Map governs any split into two titles
Low and Mid-Rise
None of the 24 blocks we checked fell inside the state Low and Mid-Rise area, so in this part of Freemans Waterhole the LEP minimums are what count. The boundary is a walking distance from a listed centre, so it can cut through a suburb — the checker reads which side of it your own address sits on.
What else turned up
None of the blocks we checked came back bushfire-prone, flood-mapped or heritage-listed. 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 24 real Freemans Waterhole 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 24 blocks we checked" rather than a figure for every block in Freemans Waterhole. Your own block is the only one that answers for itself — that is what the box on the right is for.
Enter the address — lot, frontage, zone, constraints and what it can carry.