Site plans for Hobart, Tasmania: drawn in minutes
Need a site plan for a shed, patio, carport, deck, pool or granny flat in Hobart? Site plans and assessments in minutes, drawn over the real lot.
Towns and suburbs in Hobart include Hobart, Sandy Bay, North Hobart, New Town and Battery Point.
Building in Hobart
The City of Hobart maps its own bushfire, flood, heritage and landslide overlays, on top of the state's mapping, so a lot in Sandy Bay or New Town can carry more than one layer. Battery Point and Gregory St are among the city's specific area plans, which can stand in for or add to the zone's figures.
Driveways have a local rule too. Taking a vehicle over a footpath, nature strip or kerb where there's no crossover needs the City's vehicle movement permit, and no part of a parked vehicle may sit on a footpath or nature strip.
TasWater decides on work near its pipes. Current applications in Hobart and North Hobart are advertised by the City.
What we hold for Hobart
For Hobart we hold the council’s own rules for:
- sheds, garden sheds, garages and carports
- patios, pergolas, louvred roofs, decks and shade sails
- pools, fences and retaining walls
- granny flats
- driveways, water tanks and shipping containers
At each lot we check the council’s own mapping for flood, bushfire, landslide and heritage, and the state’s mapping for flood, bushfire, landslide, heritage and native vegetation. We also read the council’s application register for past applications on the lot.
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How approval works in Tasmania
In Tasmania building work is sorted by risk. Low-risk work needs no permit; notifiable work needs a building surveyor's certificate of likely compliance and a notice to the council; and permit work also needs a building permit from the council as the permit authority. Planning is a separate question, usually settled first: under the planning scheme a development is exempt, permitted when it meets the acceptable solutions, or discretionary when it relies on the performance criteria, which the council decides and may advertise for comment. The building surveyor and the council read the site plan for where the structure sits against each boundary and the house. Size, siting and the codes over the lot decide both questions, as per the Tasmanian Planning Scheme and the Building Act 2016 categories of building work.
Drawing the plan
Type the property address, the lot’s real boundaries load from official land records in Tasmania, and you place the structure over the aerial view. The plan prints to scale with boundary lengths, setback distances, a north arrow, a legend, a site coverage table and a title block, as the site plan for a building permit or a planning permit.
What a certifier in Hobart will ask you
How deep is the pool?
The depth decides whether the water needs a barrier, and the barrier has to be in place before the pool is filled. The barrier is what gets inspected, so the sheet shows where it runs and every gate with its swing.
Is the patio a pergola, a louvred roof or a solid roof?
An open pergola and a roofed patio are treated differently near the boundary, and louvres that shut to shed water count as a roof. Roofed, it also adds to the site cover total on the sheet.
Is the lot in an overlay, and what is the zoning?
A flood, bushfire, heritage or character overlay can bring a planning approval on top of the building approval, and the zone decides which of the council’s rules apply. The mapped overlays are read at the lot as the structure goes on the plan.
Is the carport open, or closed in?
How open the carport is changes whether it needs a fire rated wall near the boundary, and a roller door or a later enclosure reopens the question. A shed never takes the open carport exemption.
The figures for your own lot are read in a minute, from its address.
Every question a certifier asks is on the Tasmania page.
Changes on the way
Rule changes announced for Hobart, for Tasmania and for the whole country, the state and national lines in full on the Tasmania page, each with the page that says so and the day we read it.
In the next 90 days
Nothing due in the next 90 days that we know of.
Later
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National Construction Code 2025
Source cbos.tas.gov.au, read
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ABCB Housing Provisions 2025 (with NCC 2025)
Source abcb.gov.au, read
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AS 1926.1:2024 Swimming pool safety barriers
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Housing Provisions Part 10.8
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Housing Provisions Part 9.2
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Volume Two Part H6, Specification 42 and Housing Provisions Section 13
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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NCC 2025 Volume Two Part H8
Source ncc.abcb.gov.au, read
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National Construction Code, residential pause
Source treasury.gov.au, read
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National Construction Code, next edition
Source abcb.gov.au, read
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No date yet
AS 3959:2018 Construction of buildings in bushfire prone areas
Source store.standards.org.au, read
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No date yet
AS 4678-2002 Earth retaining structures
Source store.standards.org.au, read
What we changed for Hobart
The rules we hold for Hobart, each brought up to date from the page it names, newest first. The summary above reads from them.
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Council rules
Read from services.thelist.tas.gov.au
Council notices
No story for Hobart yet.
The sources we read for Hobart
No page of Hobart’s own is on our watch yet.
Follow Hobart in a feed reader: www.rapidsiteplan.au/site-plan/hobart/feed.xml. Every council and state has one, listed on rule changes by council and state.
RapidSiteplan is design software: you confirm details, measure on site and your certifier or council makes the approval decision. The rule above is general information, not building or legal advice. Boundaries shown are indicative, a surveyor is recommended where exact positions matter.
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