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Coolamon Shire DCP: the dwelling controls, as published.
4 controls for low-density residential — dwelling houses, taken from Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures. As at 2026-08-05.
NSW has no statewide dwelling setback or site-coverage standard. The LEP sets zone, height and FSR; the numbers that shape a build sit in each council's DCP. Below are the 4 controls Coolamon Shire publishes numerically. Anything its DCP assesses on merit rather than a fixed number is simply absent from this table — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.
Coolamon Shire — published dwelling controls
| Control | Published value | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|
| Front setback | 8 m | RU5 Village zone, flat 8.0m (Coolamon has no R2 Low Density Residential zone; RU5 Village is the standard township residential zone where single dwellings go). |
| Secondary street setback | 3 m | — |
| Side setback | 0.9 m | — |
| Rear setback | 0 m | — |
Source: Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures. Clauses: s15.3 Building Setback (RU5 Village); s26.3 Development Standards (multi-unit — context only, not applied to dwelling houses). Open the source DCP.
Qualifications that change how these read
- Coolamon Shire LEP 2011 has no R2 Low Density Residential zone. The standard township residential zone is RU5 Village; R5 Large Lot Residential is the rural-residential zone. Reported values are for RU5 Village single dwellings (DCP 2015 Part C, s15.3). Section 26 explicitly frames RU5 Village as the low-density-perception residential zone.
- RU5 Village rear setback: the dwelling may be built to the rear boundary (recorded rear_setback_m=0). Verbatim: 'Development is permitted to the rear boundary; however garages, carports and the like that are provided with direct access from a rear lane must observe a rear setback of 1.0m.'
- secondary_street_setback_m=3.0 applies to corner allotments (min setback from the secondary street frontage). side_setback_m=0.9 is the side boundary setback.
- R5 Large Lot Residential single-dwelling setbacks: Front 20.0m, Side 10.0m, Rear 10.0m. The same 20/10/10 also applies in RU4 Primary Production Small Lots and RU1 Primary Production.
- Minor variations to minimum setbacks may be considered by Council on individual merit / onsite conditions and BCA compliance (s15.3).
- SINGLE dwelling houses (s15) have NO site coverage, landscaped-area, or private-open-space numeric standard in the DCP — hence those fields are null.
- Site coverage max 75% (incl. all hard-stand) and private open space min 50m²/dwelling (with at least one area of 4m×6m or 3m×8m), plus a landscaping-plan requirement, apply ONLY to dual occupancy and multi-dwelling (3+) developments under Section 26 — NOT to dwelling houses — so they are deliberately not recorded here.
- Fetched via curl (Zyte returned 520 Website Ban for both coolamon.nsw.gov.au and static1.squarespace.com). Council-facing URL https://coolamon.nsw.gov.au/s/Amended-Final-Version-Coolamon-DCP-Commercial-and-Industrial-Controls-April-25.pdf 302-redirects to the recorded CDN URL; despite the 'Commercial and Industrial' filename it is the full DCP 2015 (Parts A–E incl. residential controls).
How this was compiled, and how far to trust it
These values were machine-extracted from the source DCP and have not been independently re-checked. Treat them as screening grade: good enough to compare councils and to know which questions to ask, not a substitute for reading the clause before you rely on it. This is a different and lower tier of confidence than our Victorian zone schedules, which are read and verified from the source planning scheme by a person. We do not present the two as equivalent.
A council's DCP can be amended at any time and this page reflects the document as at 2026-08-05. Where a control is absent above, the DCP either sets no number or assesses that parameter on merit.
This information is provided for research and preliminary screening only. It does not constitute professional planning, legal or architectural advice. Always verify with Coolamon Shire before making decisions.
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