Reference Data · New South Wales
Leeton Shire DCP: the dwelling controls, as published.
4 controls for low-density residential — dwelling houses, taken from Leeton Comprehensive DCP 2022 — Part D (Housing and Ancillary Development), Section D4 Large Lot Housing. 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 Leeton 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.
Leeton Shire — published dwelling controls
| Control | Published value | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|
| Front setback | 15 m | R2 Low Density Residential (Part D.4 Large Lot Housing), lots <4000m² (Table 12): 15m, OR the average setback of adjoining dwellings, whichever is the lesser. Lots >4000m² (Table 13): 20m or average adjoining, whichever is the lesser. (Prevailing/average-building-line-capped control.) |
| Secondary street setback | 10 m | — |
| Side setback | 5 m | — |
| Rear setback | 8 m | — |
Source: Leeton Comprehensive DCP 2022 — Part D (Housing and Ancillary Development), Section D4 Large Lot Housing. Clauses: Part D.4 application (zones R2 Low Density Residential + R5 Large Lot Residential; single dwellings, dual occupancies, alts/adds); D4.3 Building setbacks — Table 12 (lots <4000m²) and Table 13 (lots >4000m²). Cross-referenced: Part D.1 Urban + Village Dwellings (R1) — D1.3 Table 1 setbacks + D1.6 Landscaped Area.. Open the source DCP.
Qualifications that change how these read
- Zone->Part mapping (honest): In Leeton, R2 Low Density Residential dwelling houses are controlled by Part D.4 'Large Lot Housing', which the DCP applies jointly to R2 Low Density Residential AND R5 Large Lot Residential. The recorded setbacks are the R2 case (lots <4000m², Table 12).
- Setbacks are AREA-tiered by a 4000m² threshold, not frontage: Table 12 (lots <4000m²) front 15m / secondary-street 10m / rear 8m / side 5m; Table 13 (lots >4000m²) front 20m / secondary-street 10m / rear 10m / side 5m. Standard R2 residential lots are <4000m², so Table 12 values are recorded; the >4000m² (effectively R5) figures differ only in front 20m and rear 10m.
- Front setback is prevailing-line-capped: '15m or the average setback of adjoining dwellings, whichever is the lesser' — recorded front_setback_m=15 as the nominal maximum.
- 'Side boundary (not adjoining a road)' = 5m; where a side adjoins a road it is treated as a secondary street (10m).
- Part D.4 contains NO numeric site-coverage, landscaped-area, or private-open-space standard for R2 — hence those fields are null (confirmed from the D4 table of contents: only D4.1 earthworks, D4.2 streetscape, D4.3 setbacks, D4.4 stormwater, D4.5 utilities).
- D4.3 also imposes separation distances (not boundary setbacks): 20m to heritage items, 50m to a railway corridor (or per NSW rail-corridor guideline, whichever greater), 50m to RU1 Primary Production land, 40m to mapped watercourse, and 'Outside' any mapped wetland/riparian, terrestrial-biodiversity, or flood-planning area.
- Context for R1 (Leeton's principal urban residential zone, Part D.1 'Urban + Village Dwellings', if the target is R1 rather than R2): standard-lot single-dwelling setbacks front 4.5m (or average building line) for lots <750m² and 6m (or average building line) for >750m²; side 0.9m or BCA; rear 3m (<750m²) / 5m (>750m²); secondary street on corner lots 3m (<750m²) / 4.5m (>750m²). Landscaped area (D1.6): minimum 33% (one-third) of total site area — this is a general landscaped-area minimum (includes turf, gardens, and non-driveway impervious surfaces >=1m wide), NOT deep-soil. D1 has no site-coverage or POS numeric standard for single dwellings.
- Source is the current in-force DCP: 'Leeton Comprehensive DCP 2022' (Leeton Shire's first DCP, endorsed October 2022; PDF ModDate 31 Oct 2022, Nitro Pro, 326 pages). A separate DRAFT new DCP is on public exhibition via haveyoursay.leeton.nsw.gov.au but is not yet in force.
- Retrieval note: the DCP is a single ~104MB PDF; whole-file fetch via Zyte returned 520 (Website Ban / timeout on size). Retrieved successfully by chunked HTTP Range requests (server honours Range, total 104,213,101 bytes) and reassembled locally, then pdftotext -layout.
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 Leeton Shire before making decisions.
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