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Suburb guide · 2100

Can I build a duplex or granny flat in Oxford Falls?

Most of Oxford Falls 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.

Oxford Falls sits in Northern Beaches Council's area under Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011. We ran 25 real Oxford Falls addresses through the checker: the typical block is 23,510 m² with 121 m of frontage. Most of them are not residential land, so see the note below before reading the counts.

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23,510 m²typical block
121 mtypical frontage
0 of 25could add a granny flat
0 of 25could carry two homes

The typical Oxford Falls block

The middle block of the 25 we checked is 23,510 m² with 121 m of street frontage. The smallest was 2,234 m² and the largest 45,127 m². Zones in the sample: DM (23), RE1 (2).

under 450 m² 0
450–599 m² 0
600–699 m² 0
700–799 m² 0
800–999 m² 0
1,000 m²+ 25

The 25 blocks we checked, by land size.

What homes sell for in postcode 2100

Median sale prices for the whole of postcode 2100, January to March 2026. These cover every suburb sharing the postcode, not Oxford Falls alone, and they are not a value for any one block.

  • Houses: $2.50m (37 sales)
  • Units and apartments: $1.05m (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. Warringah LEP cl 5.4(9) — the greater of 60 m² or 11% 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 Oxford Falls

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

Under Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011 a dual occupancy needs 800 m² — this LEP sets no frontage minimum, so Council's DCP governs width.

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 Oxford Falls 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; 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. Northern Beaches has no flood layer on the Planning Portal, so flood is checked against Council’s own study by hand.

How we got these numbers

We took 25 real Oxford Falls 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 Oxford Falls. Your own block is the only one that answers for itself — that is what the box on the right is for.

23,510 m²121 m × 194 m
The typical block already clears the dual-occupancy minimum.
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More: the Northern Beaches Council guide · duplexes in Northern Beaches · granny flats in Northern Beaches.
Nearby suburbs — Allambie Heights · Beacon Hill · Brookvale · North Manly · Cromer · Dee Why · Elanora Heights · Ingleside.
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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