You've seen SOEE and SEE in your council's requirements. Do you need both? No. A SOEE is a Statement of Environmental Effects — exactly the same document as a SEE. Statement of Environmental Effects spells SOEE if you keep the 'of', and SEE if you drop it. Some councils write it one way, some the other. A few call it a planning statement. All one report. You need it whenever your project goes through the DA pathway. Exempt and complying development don't. But a knockdown rebuild, a two-storey addition or a granny flat do. Whatever your council calls it, you only prepare one. Generate yours in minutes at instantSEE.
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