Before you design anything in New South Wales, check your zoning — it decides what you're even allowed to build. Your zone comes from your council's Local Environmental Plan, or LEP. R2 is low density residential: houses and granny flats. R3, medium density, adds townhouses and small unit blocks. Each zone's land use table lists what's permitted, what needs consent, and what's banned. And it drives your height limit, floor space ratio and minimum lot size. You can check it free — just enter your address on our council zone checker to see your zone, your LEP, and what it allows. Then, when you lodge your DA, generate your Statement of Environmental Effects, or SEE, in minutes at instantSEE.
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