Suburb guide · 2540
Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Hyams Beach?
Hyams Beach sits in Shoalhaven City Council's area under Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan 2014. We ran 25 real Hyams Beach addresses through the checker: the typical block is 662 m² with 15.2 m of frontage, 22 of the 25 could add a granny flat, and 25 could carry two separate homes today.
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The typical Hyams Beach block
The middle block of the 25 we checked is 662 m² with 15.2 m of street frontage. The smallest was 160 m² and the largest 1,311 m². Zones in the sample: R2 (23), R1 (2).
The 25 blocks we checked, by land size.
What homes sell for in postcode 2540
Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2540, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Hyams Beach alone, and they are not a value for any one block.
- Houses: $878k (224 sales)
- Units and apartments: $715k (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
22 of the 25 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 Hyams Beach
25 of the 25 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
23 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 Hyams Beach 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 Hyams Beach. 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.