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Gunnedah Shire DCP: the dwelling controls, as published.
5 controls for low-density residential — dwelling houses, taken from Gunnedah Development Control Plan 2025 (adopted 18 June 2025) — Part C Residential Development, Section C.1 Dwelling house. 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 5 controls Gunnedah 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.
Gunnedah Shire — published dwelling controls
| Control | Published value | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|
| Front setback | 6.5 m | R2 primary frontage: 6.5m or the average of the adjoining dwellings, whichever is less (Table 2). |
| Secondary street setback | 3 m | — |
| Side setback | 0.9 m | — |
| Minimum boundary setback | 0.9 m | — |
| Rear setback | 0.9 m | — |
Source: Gunnedah Development Control Plan 2025 (adopted 18 June 2025) — Part C Residential Development, Section C.1 Dwelling house. Clauses: C.1.1 Setbacks; Table 2 - Building Setbacks (R2 column). Open the source DCP.
Qualifications that change how these read
- Source is the CURRENT DCP: Gunnedah Development Control Plan 2025, adopted 18 June 2025 (2012 DCP repealed same date).
- Low-density residential zone is R2. Table 2 gives setbacks for R2, R3 and RU5; the values recorded here are the R2 column.
- FRONT setback is a prevailing-line control: '6.5m or the average of the adjoining dwellings, whichever is less' — recorded 6.5 as the nominal max with the formula in the note; effective front setback can be less than 6.5m where adjoining dwellings are closer.
- Side AND rear are a single combined control = 0.9m or compliance with BCA (Vol 2); setbacks under 900mm are considered where the fire rating satisfies the BCA. Recorded 0.9 for side, rear and min boundary.
- Secondary (corner) frontage: 3m for a building wall; 5.5m for a garage/carport attached to the building wall. Recorded 3m (building wall).
- Garage must be set back min. 1m behind the front building line (not captured in the structured setback fields).
- Articulation elements may encroach: 0.5m for up to 10% of the building frontage.
- NO site coverage, landscaped/deep-soil area, or private-open-space standard is specified for a standalone dwelling house in R2 — the DCP prescribes only setbacks (Table 2). All *_pct / *_tiers / pos_* fields are null by design, not omission.
- POS 15sqm (3m depth) applies to SECONDARY dwellings (granny flats), and Table 4 POS + 45% landscaping apply to DUAL OCCUPANCY / MULTI DWELLING housing — deliberately excluded as they are not the dwelling-house case.
- Table 3 (R5 large-lot zone) gives lot-size-dependent setbacks (10m/15m front, 2m/5m side&rear) but R5 is not the standard low-density R2 case.
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 Gunnedah Shire before making decisions.
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