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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 2026-08-29.
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 — here, the 4 that Coolamon Shire publishes numerically. Anything its DCP assesses on merit rather than a fixed number is absent from this table: not a zero, and 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.
Scope: RU5 dwelling houses. These are the controls for RU5, Coolamon Shire’s low-density residential zone. Do not apply these figures to a dual occupancy, duplex, secondary dwelling or multi-dwelling housing development — Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures sets those out separately, and Feasibly has not codified them.
What qualifies these Coolamon Shire controls?
- 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).
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How reliable is this Coolamon Shire DCP data?
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 2026-08-29. 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.
Coolamon Shire planning controls — common questions
Do these Coolamon Shire controls apply to a duplex or dual occupancy?
No. The figures on this page are Coolamon Shire’s dwelling-house controls. A dual occupancy, duplex, secondary dwelling or multi-dwelling housing development is assessed under different standards, and Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures states them separately — Feasibly has not codified those, so do not apply the numbers above to one.
Which zone do these Coolamon Shire controls apply to?
RU5 Village — Coolamon Shire’s low-density residential zone. Confirmed against the zones the Coolamon Shire LEP actually contains. This page presents the low-density residential case; some DCP sections also cover other residential zones, and the source above names the zones it applies to.
What planning controls does Coolamon Shire publish for dwellings?
Coolamon Shire publishes 4 dwelling controls in Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures: front setback, secondary street setback, side setback, rear setback. Each value and its clause reference is listed on this page, as at 2026-08-29.
Does NSW have a statewide dwelling setback standard?
No. The Local Environmental Plan sets zone, building height and floor space ratio, but the numbers that shape a dwelling — setbacks, site coverage, landscaped area and private open space — sit in each council’s Development Control Plan. That is why these figures are published per council rather than per state.
How reliable are these Coolamon Shire figures?
They are machine-extracted from Coolamon Shire Development Control Plan 2015 (amended April 2025) — Part C General Development Controls, Section 15 General Housing & Ancillary Structures and have not been independently re-checked, so treat them as screening grade — good enough to compare councils and to know which questions to ask, not a substitute for reading the clause. This is a lower confidence tier than our Victorian schedules, which a person reads and verifies from the source scheme.
Do these controls apply to every property in Coolamon Shire?
No. These are the council-wide published figures for low-density residential — dwelling houses. The zone, any overlays and the consent triggers that actually apply depend on the individual parcel, and a control absent from this page means the DCP either sets no number or assesses that parameter on merit — not that the requirement is zero.
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