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Suburb guide · 2066

Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Longueville?

Longueville sits in Lane Cove Council's area under Lane Cove Local Environmental Plan 2009. We ran 25 real Longueville addresses through the checker: the typical block is 828 m² with 17.4 m of frontage, 21 of the 25 could add a granny flat, and 24 could carry two separate homes today.

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828 m²typical block
17.4 mtypical frontage
21 of 25could add a granny flat
24 of 25could carry two homes

The typical Longueville block

The middle block of the 25 we checked is 828 m² with 17.4 m of street frontage. The smallest was 515 m² and the largest 1,400 m². Zones in the sample: R2 (24), E1 (1).

under 450 m² 0
450–599 m² 4
600–699 m² 4
700–799 m² 1
800–999 m² 11
1,000 m²+ 5

The 25 blocks we checked, by land size.

What homes sell for in postcode 2066

Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2066, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Longueville alone, and they are not a value for any one block.

  • Houses: $3.42m (46 sales)
  • Units and apartments: $938k (135 sales)

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

A granny flat

21 of the 25 blocks we checked could take one. Lane Cove LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 100% 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 Longueville

24 of the 25 blocks we checked could carry two or more separate homes today.

Lane Cove LEP sets no minimum lot size or frontage for a dual occupancy — permitted with consent in R2 and judged on Council's DCP; since 16 June 2022 a new dual occupancy cannot be split into two Torrens titles (cl 4.1A) — strata only

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 Longueville 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

2 of 25 were on bushfire-prone land; 2 of 25 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 25 real Longueville 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 Longueville. Your own block is the only one that answers for itself — that is what the box on the right is for.

828 m²17.4 m × 48 m
The typical block in this suburb, to scale.
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More: the Lane Cove Council guide · duplexes in Lane Cove · granny flats in Lane Cove.
Nearby suburbs — Lane Cove · Lane Cove West · Linley Point · Northwood · Riverview · Greenwich · St Leonards.
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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