Site plans for Parramatta, New South Wales: drawn in minutes
Need a site plan for a shed, patio, carport, deck, pool or granny flat in Parramatta? Site plans and assessments in minutes, drawn over the real lot.
Towns and suburbs in Parramatta include Parramatta, Westmead, Carlingford, North Rocks and Ermington.
Building in Parramatta
Parramatta protects the back of the block. A rear balcony or deck is only allowed where it sits a long way from the rear boundary and limits overlooking, and a house keeps a rear setback that is a share of the site's length. Deep soil must make up a good part of each site, much of it at the rear, and no outbuilding may push the deep soil, landscaping or private open space below the minimum.
Outbuildings are single storey with a height cap, sit behind the main building frontage and keep clear of the side and rear boundaries, though a small one may sit closer to the rear where no established trees are lost. A house sits in line with the street's prevailing setback, much further from a state or regional road, and is limited to two storeys plus an attic.
The City of Parramatta maps flood itself, which matters around Parramatta, Westmead, Carlingford and North Rocks. Applications go through the NSW Planning Portal.
What we hold for Parramatta
For Parramatta 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
We also hold its current fee schedule.
At each lot we check the council’s own mapping for flood, 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.
Last checked
How approval works in New South Wales
In New South Wales a small structure goes through the planning pathway it fits. Exempt development needs no approval and nothing is lodged, but the structure has to meet every exempt standard and the land must not be excluded from it. Complying development is a fast approval: a complying development certificate from a registered certifier or the council, for work that meets the state's complying standards. Anything else needs a development application to the council, assessed against its local environmental plan and development control plan. The certifier or the council reads the site plan for the structure's size and its distance to each boundary and the house, and for exempt work the plan is the owner's own record. Size, height, distance to each boundary and the land itself decide the pathway, as per the State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008.
Drawing the plan
Type the property address, the lot’s real boundaries load from official land records in New South Wales, 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 DA or a complying development certificate.
What a certifier in Parramatta will ask you
How big can a granny flat be, and how far from the house?
The council caps a granny flat’s floor area, and some councils also limit how far from the house it may stand. The sheet prints the floor area and dimensions the distance to the house.
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 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 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.
The figures for your own lot are read in a minute, from its address.
Every question a certifier asks is on the New South Wales page.
Approval for the job in Parramatta
Changes on the way
Rule changes announced for Parramatta, for New South Wales and for the whole country, the state and national lines in full on the New South Wales page, each with the page that says so and the day we read it.
In the next 90 days
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Codes SEPP and the complying development variations pathway
Source planningportal.nsw.gov.au, read
Later
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National Construction Code 2025
Source nsw.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
Parramatta Local Environmental Plan 2023, harmonisation supplementary matters and housekeeping planning proposal
Minor and technical LEP changes that follow the land use harmonisation framework
Source participate.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Building (Approvals and Practitioners) Act 2026
Source nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Planning for Bush Fire Protection 2026
Source rfs.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Standard and model conditions of consent (explanation of intended effect)
Source planningportal.nsw.gov.au, read
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No date yet
Statewide low rise housing code and targeted assessment (discussion paper)
Source planningportal.nsw.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 Parramatta
The rules we hold for Parramatta, 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 Parramatta: Parramatta DCP 2023
Council notices
No story for Parramatta yet.
The sources we read for Parramatta
2 sources read for Parramatta, the newest on , each below with the day it was last read.
Planning schemes and codes
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Parramatta: Parramatta DCP 2023
No change
Fees
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Parramatta: 2026-2027 Fees and Charges
No change
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