Suburb guide · 2753
Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Grose Wold?
Most of Grose Wold is land this tool does not answer for. 25 of the 25 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.
Grose Wold sits in Hawkesbury City Council's area under Hawkesbury Local Environmental Plan 2012. We ran 25 real Grose Wold addresses through the checker: the typical block is 38,981 m² with 82.2 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 Grose Wold block
The middle block of the 25 we checked is 38,981 m² with 82.2 m of street frontage. The smallest was 1,507 m² and the largest 108,733 m². Zones in the sample: RU4 (25).
The 25 blocks we checked, by land size.
What homes sell for in postcode 2753
Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2753, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Grose Wold alone, and they are not a value for any one block.
- Houses: $1.06m (32 sales)
- Units and apartments: $733k (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 25 blocks we checked could take one. Hawkesbury LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 10% 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 Grose Wold
0 of the 25 blocks we checked could carry two or more separate homes today.
dual occupancies are not in the R2 land-use table of the Hawkesbury LEP, so outside the state Low and Mid-Rise catchment they are not permitted; inside it the state 450 m² / 12 m rule applies
Low and Mid-Rise
None of the 25 blocks we checked fell inside the state Low and Mid-Rise area, so in this part of Grose Wold 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
25 of 25 were on bushfire-prone land. 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 25 real Grose Wold 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 25 blocks we checked" rather than a figure for every block in Grose Wold. Your own block is the only one that answers for itself — that is what the box on the right is for.
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