Lodging a DA in New South Wales? Your Statement of Environmental Effects has to do three things under Schedule 1 of the planning regulation. It must indicate your development's impacts, its effect on the natural, built and social environment, and how you'll manage them. In practice: describe the site and the proposal, address your council's LEP and DCP controls, and assess overshadowing, privacy, and any flood, bushfire or heritage constraints. It's your answer to the matters every council must weigh under section 4.15. Leave a section out and you'll get a request for information that adds weeks. Cover it the first time and your DA keeps moving. Generate yours in minutes at instantSEE.
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