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Parkes Shire DCP: the dwelling controls, as published.
5 controls for low-density residential — dwelling houses, taken from Parkes Shire Development Control Plan 2021 — Part C.2 Urban Dwellings (single dwellings). 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 Parkes 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.
Parkes Shire — published dwelling controls
| Control | Published value | Qualifier |
|---|---|---|
| Front setback | 4.5 m | Primary front setback is the average building line of the two adjoining dwellings; where no established line, the fallback minimum is 4.5m for standard lots ≤600m² and 6m for lots >600m² (single or two storey). 4.5m recorded = the ≤600m² fallback minimum. |
| Secondary street setback | 3 m | — |
| Side setback | 0.9 m | — |
| Minimum boundary setback | 0.9 m | — |
| Rear setback | 3 m | — |
Source: Parkes Shire Development Control Plan 2021 — Part C.2 Urban Dwellings (single dwellings). Clauses: Part C.2.1 (Application), C.2.4 Setbacks — Standard Lots table + Corner Lots table (secondary street), C.2.5 Building Design (9m height). Cross-checked C.3.8 Private Open Space (50m² applies to dual occupancy/medium density only). Whole-document search: no 'site coverage', no numeric 'landscaped area', no 'deep soil' control for dwellings.. Open the source DCP.
Qualifications that change how these read
- Parkes LEP 2012 has NO R2 zone; the urban residential zone is R1 General Residential. Part C.2 (Urban Dwellings) is the low-density single-dwelling control and applies to dwellings in ANY zone except R5 Large Lot Residential and RU1 Primary Production.
- Setbacks are lot-area (split at 600m²) and storey dependent, not flat. Rear (Standard Lots): single-storey 3m (≤600m²) / 5m (>600m²); two-storey 5m (≤600m²) / 8m (>600m²). rear_setback_m=3 recorded = base single-storey ≤600m² minimum.
- Side setback 0.9m applies to single storey (or BCA, whichever greater); two-storey side setback is 1.5m (or BCA). No narrow-lot/frontage merit reduction is stated (side is 0.9m regardless of lot size).
- Front is primarily the AVERAGE building line of the two adjoining dwellings; 4.5m (≤600m²) and 6m (>600m²) are fallback minimums where no established line exists.
- Max building height 9m above existing ground level (C.2.5a). Attached garages min 5.5m from primary/secondary street (C.2.3d). 1 on-site car space per dwelling behind building line (C.2.7d).
- NO site coverage control and NO numeric landscaped-area / deep-soil control exists anywhere in the DCP for dwellings — whole-document text search returned zero occurrences of 'coverage' and no numeric landscaped-area standard.
- Private open space: single dwelling houses have NO POS minimum. The 50m²/dwelling POS (min 3m wide) is Part C.3.8 and applies only to semi-detached/attached/multi-dwelling/dual-occupancy (medium density); secondary dwellings require 100m² shared. Hence pos_min_sqm=null for the dwelling-house case.
- Battle-axe lots (C.2.4): front 3m, side 0.9m, rear 5m (single) / 8m (two storey). Laneway and parallel-road lots have their own tables. Not the standard case.
- Provenance: The DCP is published as a single 'DCP - Full Version.pdf' (~24MB, 212pp) in a Box folder linked from https://www.parkes.nsw.gov.au/Development/Building-and-development/Planning-Controls → folder https://app.box.com/s/54qvm9xfhrpfsg58dvci5bb1xv6b8j5t. Box banned Zyte (520); fetched the PDF via direct Box shared-file download and extracted with 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 Parkes Shire before making decisions.
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